Vestgrensa (station)

Coordinates: 59°56′40″N 10°43′30″E / 59.94444°N 10.72500°E / 59.94444; 10.72500
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Vestgrensa
Sognsvann Line
Construction
Structure typeElevated
History
Opened10 October 1934[1]
Closed22 August 1999[2]

Vestgrensa (originally Ullevål Haveby) was a

Forskningsparken
.

History

Ullevål Haveby station opened on 10 October 1934, when

Ullevål stadion station.[7]

Vestgrensa was part of Holmenkolbanen's operating network until 1975, when the municipality of Oslo bought all the company's stock.[8] In the early 1990s, the stations on the Sognsvann Line were upgraded to metro standard, which involved a heightening and lengthening of the platforms, and installation of a third rail power supply and a new signaling system. The electrified third rail made it impossible for passengers to cross at track level, and under- or overpasses had to be built at all stations.[9]

In 1992, the transport authorities of Oslo decided to close

Forskningsparken Station.[12]

Location

Vestgrensa was located in the

Oslo Innovation Center (Norwegian: Forskningsparken) and the football stadium Ullevaal Stadion. The station was positioned on an elevated embankment, some metres from a bridge over a pedestrian walkway also named Vestgrensa.[13] The station served the residential area in Ullevål Hageby, as well as the University of Oslo at Blindern. A scout hut was in many years located close to the station.[14]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Frøen Station was only closed on the Sognsvann Line, and is still served by the Holmenkollen Line.[1][10]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b "T-banestasjonene i vest" (in Norwegian). Ruter. Archived from the original on 2 October 2010. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
  2. ^ "T-banen i Oslo fra 1898 - kort historikk" (in Norwegian). tbane.no. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
  3. ^ Nilsen 1998, p. 133.
  4. ^ Arntzen & Hansen 2009, p. 88.
  5. OCLC 185445036
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  6. ^ Andersen 1993, p. 50.
  7. .
  8. ^ Nilsen 1998, p. 140.
  9. Aftenposten Aften
    (in Norwegian). 8 January 1993. p. 8.
  10. ^
    Aftenposten Aften
    (in Norwegian). p. 5.
  11. Aftenposten Aften
    (in Norwegian). p. 54.
  12. ^ Kagge, Gunnar (22 August 1999). "Nye Oslo-ruter, men mangel på rutebøker". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 3.
  13. ^ Google (6 November 2010). "Vestgrensa (station)" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  14. Aftenposten Aften
    (in Norwegian). 24 September 1990. p. 4.

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