Old Voss Line

The Gamle Vossebanen (Norwegian for: the old Voss railway ) is a railway museum in Bergen, Norway.

History

The railway track was licensed by the Norwegian Storting on June 9, 1865 under the name Vossebanen and completed in 1067 mm narrow gauge on 20 May 1883. On July 22, 1883, the passengers of Bergen's old train station has been added to Voss. Between Helldal and Haukeland five tunnels had to be blasted. The longest - Brattland Tunnelen - pointed to 258 m. As in 1894 and 1896, the Storting decided to build the cable car, had to be rebuilt and Vossebanen was on 11 August 1904 as the first section of the cable car ready for their scheduled standard gauge. She was the first CAP -track route in Norway, which was converted to standard gauge. On December 27, 1909, the cable car could be operated continuously from Oslo to Bergen. With the new importance of transport grew, so that the old station would west of the inland lake Lille Lungegårdsvannet must be increased. But just to the east of the lake Store Lungegårdsvannet there was an adequate building site so that Bergen received a new railway station, which was inaugurated on 26 May 1913 and was connected with a new route through a tunnel under the Haukeland. Due to the continuing heavy traffic ( about 1900 per year were about 500,000 Travelers Among Mountains and Nesttun, transported in the First World War already about a million ) the route on July 2, 1954, it was electrified.

The Gamle Vossebane was set up on the section of the cable car, which was after the construction of the 7.8 km long Ulrikstunnels no longer used by the Ulrika by the state railway NSB in passenger traffic in 1964. By 2001, partially freight still took place, since the section to Midttun is only used by the first time in 1993 trains running museum trains. A track connection with today's cable car is to Arna. The route runs along the Sørfjorden opposite the island Osterøy.

The term " Gamle Vossebanen " was created based on the history of the cable car. Operators of the museum railway is the Norsk Jernbaneklubb ( NJB ), which operates regularly museum trains on the 18- km stretch between yarn and Midttun in summer. It uses a steam locomotive of the Norwegian series 18c, which was built in 1913 by the company Jernstøberi Hamar, Hamar. The fleet consists of older cars with teak paneling, were typical until the 1980s for the Norwegian Railway.