Kronstad Station is a former station at
Kronstad Kronstad may refer to:
Places
* Kronstadt, a Russian town and seaport
* Kronstad, Bergen, a neighbourhood in Bergen, Norway
* Kronstad Hovedgård, a Norwegian manor house
* Kroonstad, a South African city
Other
* Kronstadt rebellion, anti-Bols ...
in
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
opened in 1913 and closed in 1965.
[
] It was served by trains on the
Bergen Line
The Bergen Line or the Bergen Railway ( no, Bergensbanen or nn, Bergensbana), is a long scenic standard gauge railway line between Bergen and Hønefoss, Norway. The name is often applied for the entire route from Bergen via Drammen to Oslo, ...
until January 1965, when the stretch on which the station was located was closed following the opening of the
Ulriken Tunnel
The Ulriken Tunnel ( no, Ulrikstunnelen) is a railway tunnel on the Bergen Line between Bergen Station and Arna Station in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
Original (old) tunnel
The existing long tunnel runs under the north ...
in 1964.
The former station is located south of the
Kronstad Tunnel, which passes under
Haukeland University Hospital
Haukeland University Hospital ( no, Haukeland universitetssjukehus) is a hospital in Bergen, Norway, and one of the eleven institutions that make up Bergen Hospital Trust. Haukeland is the largest in Norway in terms of number of patients, and serv ...
and Møllendal Cemetery between Kronstad and
Fløen. There were plans for converting the tunnel into a
bicycle path
Cycling infrastructure is all infrastructure cyclists are allowed to use. Bikeways include bike paths, bike lanes, cycle tracks, rail trails and, where permitted, sidewalks. Roads used by motorists are also cycling infrastructure, except wher ...
, as it is rarely used by trains nowadays.
References
Railway stations in Bergen
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