Oppdal Station

Coordinates: 62°35′34″N 9°41′38″E / 62.5928°N 09.6939°E / 62.5928; 09.6939
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Oppdal
Railway station
Dovrebanen
Distance429.28 km (266.74 mi)
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeOPD
History
Opened20 September 1921 (1921-09-20)
Location
Oppdal is located in Trøndelag
Oppdal
Oppdal
Location within Trøndelag

Oppdal Station (

European route E06 highway, just northwest of the mountain Allmannberget. The village of Oppdal is dominated by mountain tourism and skiing
in winter.

The station is located along the Dovre Line, and it is served by four daily express trains going in each direction to Oslo and Trondheim. It is also served by a few daily Trøndelag Commuter Rail to Trondheim. The station was opened in 1921 as part of the Dovre Line when it was extended from Dombås to Trondheim.[1]

Hotel

Main article: Quality Hotel Oppdal

When building the Dovre Line,

bobsled and curling course. The hotel cost 1.22 million kr, of which the building itself cost 880,000 kr.[6]

Oppdal Tourist Hotel

The arrival both of the railway and the hotel was instrumental in the tourism boom which would follow in Oppdal. Opdal turisthotell was a key, as it had an external and professional owner which operated both restaurants and hotels elsewhere.

Parliament of Norway intervened and instructed the state-owned company to keep the hotel open. It was therefore re-opened from 25 June 1929.[9] Locals were not allowed to purchase alcoholic beverages at the hotels in Oppdal. Therefore, some locals would bicycle to the nearest station, get on the train and get off at Oppdal. There they would get into the same queues as the tourists and purchase the alcoholic beverages.[10]

After the war, the hotel was renovated, including all-new interior and furniture for the restaurant and saloons.[8] In 1952, a ski lift, largely owned by Spisevognselskapet, opened.[7] In 1957, Architect Hugi Kohmann presented a model for three additions, two large two-story buildings and one eight-story. Although supported by the hotel management, the board of Spisevognselskapet were split, and in the end only one of the two-story extensions were built and completed in 1962.[2] In 1973, Norsk Spisevognselskap sold the hotel.[10] Another extension was launched in 1979,[2] and completed in 1989.[7] Ownership later passed to Johan Fr. Schønheyder.[10]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oppdal stasjon.

Bibliography

OCLC 40310643
.

Footnotes

  1. Norwegian National Rail Administration
    . Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  2. ^ a b c "Oppdal har urealiserte hotellplaner nok til en egen hotellkjede". Adresseavisen (in Norwegian). 4 May 2006. p. 17.
  3. ^ Just (1949): 68
  4. ^ a b Just (1949):76
  5. ^ Just (1949): 79
  6. ^ Just (1949): 80
  7. ^ a b c Gisnås, Lars (19 March 2008). "Slik kom Oppdal på skinner". Adresseavisen (in Norwegian). p. 28.
  8. ^ a b Just (1949): 80
  9. ^ Just (1949): 82
  10. ^ a b c Gisnås, Lars (8 August 2009). "Hotellbygd i særklasse". Adresseavisen (in Norwegian). p. 15.


Preceding station Following station
Kongsvoll Dovre Line
Berkåk
Preceding station Express trains Following station
Kongsvoll F6 Oslo S–Trondheim S  
Berkåk
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