Talk:Nordlandsbanen

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According to http://www.jernbaneverket.no/jernbanenettet/jernbane_nettet_i_tall/ Nordlandsbanen goes from Trondheim to Bodø, and Meråkerbanen goes from Hell to Storlien/Sweden (but the table is not a definitive list of the railways in Norway)

So I believe classifying Norway's longest railway as a side track is wrong.

Also, to complicate matter, some consider Fauske-Bodø as a side track... :) --ZorroIII 20:57, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

Now, if you make a phone call to Jernbaneverket, they will confirm what I wrote on the page. And since I've worked at the railroads for many years, I know that the classification of Nordlandsbanen as going from Trondheim to Bodø is wrong. If you follow the tracks from Trondheim to Hell, you can clearly see Nordlandsbanen starting on a sidetrack and branching off from Hell station. So the old classification of Meråkerbanen going from Trondheim to Sweden, and Nordlandsbanen being a newer line branching off from Hell, is correct.

Ok. So the only thing that matters is what line was built first? Then the strech from Eidsvoll to Hamar is a branch/side track of Grundsetbanen, as Hamar - Grundset was built in 1862 and Eidsvoll - Hamar in 1880? And Gjøvikbanen is a branch/side track of Hovedbanen? And what does the fact that Nordlandsbanen incorporates the strech Tverrånes - Storforshei, built in 1904, do in this equation? --ZorroIII 21:06, August 4, 2005 (UTC)