Levanger Station

Levanger
Location Levanger, Levanger
Norway
Coordinates 63°44′41″N 11°18′03″E / 63.744731°N 11.300719°E / 63.744731; 11.300719Coordinates: 63°44′41″N 11°18′03″E / 63.744731°N 11.300719°E / 63.744731; 11.300719
Elevation 3.3 metres (11 ft) above sea level
Operated by Norwegian State Railways
Line(s) Nordland Line
Distance 83.90 kilometres (52.13 mi)
Connections Bus: TrønderBilene
Construction
Architect Paul Due
History
Opened 29 October 1902

Levanger Station (Norwegian: Levanger stasjon) is a railway station located in the town center of Levanger, Norway on the Nordland Line. The station serves both local and express trains northbound through Innherred and to Nordland, and southbound to Trondheim. The Trøndelag Commuter Rail, which runs between Steinkjer and Trondheim, stops at Levanger, and operates at a one-hour intervals.[1]

History

Levanger station, facing the tracks.
Levanger station, city façade.
Train at Levanger station in 1907.

The station was opened on 29 October 1902 on the Hell–Sunnan Line as the section to Levanger was finished. There was at the time of construction a controversy as to whether the station should be in the western or eastern part of town.[2][3][4] Operation of the restaurant was run by Norsk Spisevognselskap between 1 October 1934 and 8 May 1945.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Levanger Station". Norwegian State Railways. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  2. ↑ Hoås, Jan; Stene, Morten (2005). Hell Sunnanbanen (in Norwegian). Jubileumskomiteen. pp. 33–34.
  3. ↑ "Levanger" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Railway Club. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
  4. ↑ "Levanger stasjon" (in Norwegian). Norwegian National Rail Administration. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
  5. ↑ Just, Carl (1949). A/S Norsk Spisevognselskap 1919–1949 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk Spisevognselskap. p. 66. OCLC 40310643.
Levanger map from 1909. The station is the southernmost red building.
Preceding station Line Following station
Skogn
Sykehuset Levanger		 Nordland Line HiNT
Elberg
Preceding station Express trains Following station
Stjørdal   Trondheim S–Bodø   Steinkjer
Preceding station Local trains Following station
Sykehuset   Trøndelag Commuter Rail   HiNT
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