Bergen station

Bergen Station
Bergen Station
	Vy Tog
Line(s)	Bergen Line
Platforms	4
Connections	Bus; Bergen Light Rail;
Construction
Architect	Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland
Architectural style	National Romantic style
Other information
Station code	BRG
History
Opened	1913
Location
	Bergen Station Location within Norway

Bergen Station (

terminal station on the Bergen Line, and serves trains from Oslo as well as the Bergen Commuter Rail from Arna, Voss and Myrdal. It is located on the east side of the city centre and has four platforms. The station was opened in 1913, four years after the Bergen Line itself opened; it replaced a former main station^[specify

] that was located further west.

Architecture

The station building is one of the grandest in Norway. The architect, Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland, designed it in the National Romantic style. He also designed Gamlehaugen, and the stone buildings at Bryggen. The building has been protected against non-trivial modifications since 2003.^[2]

History

Having been established in 1921, Norsk Spisevognselskap attempted to find a suitable location for a restaurant in Bergen. There was at the time a small restaurant in the station building, but there was not sufficient space for storage of food. Because of high real estate prices in the area, Norsk Spisevognselskap instead established a kiosk at the station on 1 May 1922.

The same year, 1922, the company contemplated to establish a hotel near the railway station. The plan materialised in the construction of Hotel Terminus, which was owned in part by NSB, in part by Spisevognselskapet and in part by other parties.

On 2 April 1937, Spisevognselskapet established a restaurant in the station.^[3]

References

^ "Grafiske togruter fastlagt for rutetermin R18". Archived from the original on 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
^ Order to protect Bergen Railway Station Archived November 6, 2005, at the Wayback Machine (in Norwegian)
OCLC 40310643
.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bergen Station
(Bergen stasjon).

The Norwegian National Rail Administration's entry on Bergen Railway Station

Preceding station Following station

terminus Bergen Line
Arna

Preceding station Express trains Following station

terminus F4
Bergen–Oslo S

Arna

Preceding station Local trains Following station

terminus Bergen Commuter Rail
Arna

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[1] "Grafiske togruter fastlagt for rutetermin R18". Archived from the original on 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2018-05-22.

[2] Order to protect Bergen Railway Station Archived November 6, 2005, at the Wayback Machine (in Norwegian)

[3] OCLC 40310643
.

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