Notodden New Station ( no, Notodden nye stasjon) served

Notodden Notodden () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city and List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold og Telemark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Øst-Telemark. ...

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 ...

from 1919 to 2004, and again from 2015 to 2020. The

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was designed by

Gudmund Hoel Gudmund Hoel (25 September 1877 – 7 September 1956) was a Norwegian architect. He is regarded as the second-most influential railway architect in Norway, after Paul Due. Biography He was born in Kragerø, Norway. Hoel graduated from Kristiania ...

, finished in 1917 and taken into use two years later when the

Bratsberg Line The Bratsberg Line ( no, Bratsbergbanen) is a railway line between Eidanger and Notodden in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. It opened in 1917, connecting the Tinnos Line, the Sørland Line and the Vestfold Line; allowing Norsk Hydro to tran ...

opened. The new line needed a higher starting position for the line southwards. The station is from Notodden Old Station. In 2004 Notodden Public Transport Terminal was created, further into town. On December 13 2020, this station on the Tinnoset line was closed, and instead a newer single platform terminal station, close to the site of the original station, came into use. This latest station (with newly track laid to it but without electrification) was renamed Notodden stasjon (from Notodden Gamle stasjon) and is now adjacent to the Public Transport Terminal (Notodden skysstasjon).

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Norwegian Railway Club entry
Railway stations on the Tinnoset Line Railway stations on the Bratsberg Line Railway stations in Notodden Railway stations opened in 1919 Railway stations closed in 2004 Disused railway stations in Norway 1919 establishments in Norway 2004 disestablishments in Norway {{Norway-railstation-stub