Bergen Station

Bergen Station (Norwegian: Bergen stasjon) is the main railway station in the city of Bergen, Norway. It is a terminal station on the Bergen Line, and serves trains from Oslo as well as the Bergen Commuter Rail from Arna, Voss and Myrdal. It is located on the east side of the city centre and has four platforms. The station was opened in 1913, four years after the Bergen Line itself opened; it replaced a former main station that was located further west.

The station building is one of the grandest in Norway. The architect, Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland, also designed Gamlehaugen and the stone buildings at Bryggen. The building has been protected against non-trivial modifications since 2003.^[1]

After Norsk Spisevognselskap was established in 1921, it attempted to find a suitable location for a restaurant in Bergen. There was at the time a small restaurant in the station building, but there was not sufficient space for storage of food. Because of high real estate prices in the area, Norsk Spisevognselskap instead establish a kiosk at the station from 1 May 1922. The same year, the company started discussing establishing a hotel near the railway station, which lead to the establishment of Hotel Terminus, which was owned in part by NSB, in part by Spisevognselskapet and in part by other parties. Spisevognselskapet established a restaurant at the station from 2 April 1937.^[2]

References

External links

• The Norwegian National Rail Administration's entry on Bergen Railway Station