Narvik Station

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Narvik
Location
Place	Narvik
Municipality	Narvik
Line(s)	Ofotbanen
Distance	3.70 km
Elevation	46.6 m
Service
Opened	1902
Platforms	2
Owner	Jernbaneverket
Line operator(s)	SJ
Connections

Narvik is a railway station located in Narvik in Nordland, Norway on the Ofotbanen. The station is located 3.70 km from the line terminus at Narvik Port and is served by three daily passenger trains from, respectively, Kiruna, Luleå and Stockholm in Sweden. These passenger services are currently operated by Veolia Transportation. The station is located at 46.6 meters above sea level and is 1579.9 km from Stockholm. It was opened in 1902 along with Ofotbanen and Malmbanan.

The station at Narvik represents the northern terminus for one of Europe's most celebrated night trains. The Norrlandståget leaves Stockholm around five every afternoon, reaches Lappmarken by early the following morning, and then traverses the mountains that delimit the modern frontier between Sweden and Norway to reach the Ofotfjord, on the south shore of which lies the port of Narvik. It is a journey which has been praised as 'surely one of the most engaging adventures by train in all Europe'^[1]