Flåm Station ( no, Flåm stasjon) is located at the village of

Flåm Flåm is a village in the Flåmsdalen valley which is located at the inner end of the Aurlandsfjorden, a branch of Sognefjorden. The village is located in Aurland Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. In 2014 its inhabitants numbered 350. ...

Aurland Aurland () is a municipality in the county of Vestland, Norway. It is located on the south side of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center is the village of Aurlandsvangen. Other villages include Bakka, ...

, Norway. The station marks the terminus for Flåm Line (''Flåmsbana''). The station is served by the tourist trains on the Flåm Line and operated by Vy as a subcontractor for

Flåm Utvikling Flåm Utvikling is a railway company that manages the tourist line Flåm Line (''Flåmsbana'') in Vestland county, Norway. History Up until 1998 it was Norges Statsbaner who operated the line, but then Flåm Utvikling took over the role, though ...

History

The station opened on 1 August 1940 for freight, and the year after for passenger traffic. The station was built to allow transfer from ferries operating on Sognefjord to the Bergen Line at

Myrdal Station Myrdal Station ( no, Myrdal stasjon) is a mountain railway station and junction, located on the Bergen Line regional mainline in Aurland, Vestland, Norway. The railway station is also the upper terminal of the Flåm Line local railway, which asce ...

. Marketing of the service was transferred to

in 1998; after this a new station building was opened, and the old station building converted to a railway museum. Flåm is one of Norway's largest tourist attractions, with an estimated half a million visitors annually. The Flåm Railway Documentation Centre provides information into the building of the Flåm Railway and the technical challenge facing this engineering work through the use of different exhibitions with text, image and sound.

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