Bestun Station

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This article is about the railway station. For the tramway station, see Bestum (station).

Bestun
The station building still stands as of 2009.
Station statistics
Address	Ullern, Oslo Norway
Coordinates	59°55′13″N 10°39′53″E / 59.9203°N 10.6648°E / 59.9203; 10.6648Coordinates: 59°55′13″N 10°39′53″E / 59.9203°N 10.6648°E / 59.9203; 10.6648
Line(s)	Drammen Line
Distance	4.31 km
Platforms	2
Other information
Opened	15 July 1884
Architect	Eivind Gleditsch
Closed	1978
Owned by	Norwegian State Railways
Operator	Norwegian State Railways

Bestun Station (Norwegian: Bestun stasjon) is a closed railway station located on the Drammen Line in Oslo, Norway. It is located between Skøyen and Lysaker.

The station opened on 15 July 1884 as Vækkerø. It changed name to Bestum on 15 August 1890, and to Bestun on 1 September 1922. It was closed in 1978.^[1]

The first station building was drawn by Georg Andreas Bull, but it was removed during the interwar period and re-erected at the Norwegian Railway Museum. A new station building, which still stands, was drawn by Eivind Gleditsch and completed in 1918.^[2]

The old station building at the Norwegian Railway Museum. Note the spelling: "Bestum".

References

↑ Norwegian Railway Club. "Bestun". Retrieved 2008-06-28.
↑ Tvedt, Knut Are, ed. (2000). "Bestun stasjon". Oslo byleksikon (4 ed.). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. p. 61. ISBN 82-573-0815-3.

Preceding station	Line			Following station
Skøyen	Drammen Line			Lysaker

v t e Drammen Line

Stations	Drammen Brakerøya Lier Asker Høn Vakås Hvalstad Billingstad Slependen Sandvika Blommenholm Høvik Stabekk Lysaker Skøyen Nationaltheatret Oslo S

Closed stations	Jong Ramstad Strand Myra Bestun Skarpsno Oslo V

Unused stations	Elisenberg

Branch lines	Lier Spikkestad Asker Skøyen–Filipstad

Tunnels	Lieråsen Oslo

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