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Bjørnfjell Station
Bjørnfjell Station () is a railway station in the village of Bjørnfjell, Nordland, Bjørnfjell in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located along the Ofotbanen railway line, between Søsterbekk Station and Riksgränsen Station (which is in Sweden). It is about from Narvik Station and from the Swedish border. The Swedish Iron Ore Line was extended to the town of Narvik (town), Narvik in 1902. Increased traffic made a new station between Katterat Station (then Hundalen Station) and the Swedish border desirable, and the Old Bjørnfjell Station was opened in the fall of 1913. The present Bjørnfjell Station, located further east, was opened in 1925. The old station continued to exist as a stop until 1956. The elevation of the current station is . Bjørnfjell, which means "Bear Mountain" in Norwegian, is also the name of the mountain (peak elevation 760 meters) near which the station is located. The European route E10 highway passes through the Bjørnfjell, No ...
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Narvik Municipality
() is the third-largest List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway, by population. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Narvik (town), town of Narvik. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Ankenesstrand, Ballangen (village), Ballangen, Beisfjord, Bjerkvik, Bjørnfjell, Nordland, Bjørnfjell, Elvegården, Kjøpsvik, Skjomen, Håkvik, Hergot, Straumsnes, Narvik, Straumsnes, and Vidrek. The Elvegårdsmoen army camp is located near Bjerkvik. Narvik is located on the shores of the Ofotfjorden. The municipality is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Ofoten of Northern Norway, inside the Arctic Circle. Narvik Municipality borders Hamarøy Municipality to the southwest; Evenes Municipality to the northwest; Bardu Municipality, Gratangen Municipality, Lavangen Municipality, and Tjeldsund Municipality (in Troms county) to the north; and Norrbotten County (Lapland, Sweden, Lapland) in ...
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Narvik Station
__NOTOC__ Narvik is a railway station located in Narvik Municipality in Nordland, Norway on the Ofoten Line. The station is located about from the end of the line at the Port of Narvik. It is served by two daily passenger trains, one to Stockholm (an overnight train, see below) and one to Luleå, both go via Kiruna and Boden, Sweden, Boden, all these destinations are in Sweden. In 2024 these passenger services are operated by Vy Tåg, a subsidiary of the former Norwegian State Railways which won the operating contract, but SJ AB, SJ, a state-owned passenger train operator in Sweden, has won back the contract from 15 December 2024 onwards. Since 2020 a local summer seasonal passenger service, called 'The Arctic Train' has been operated between Narvik and Bjørnfjell Station, Bjørnfjell and back. Tickets are sold to general public but cruise ship passengers are a target group. The station is the northernmost station in the Schengen Area and the northernmost standard-gauge railw ...
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Railway Stations On The Ofoten Line
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by diesel or electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or animal power have existed since antiquity, but modern rail transport began with the invention of the steam locomotive in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 19th c ...
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