Bergen station

Bergen Station
Front facade of Bergen station, 2019
General information
LocationBergen
Norway
Coordinates60°23′25″N 5°19′59″E / 60.39028°N 5.33306°E / 60.39028; 5.33306
Owned byBane NOR
Operated byVy Tog
Line(s)Bergen Line
Platforms4
Connections
Construction
ArchitectJens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland
Architectural styleNational Romantic style
Other information
Station codeBRG [1]
History
Opened1913
Location
Bergen Station is located in Norway
Bergen Station
Bergen Station
Location within Norway
Map

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[specify] that was located further west.

Architecture

The station building is one of the grandest in Norway. The architect, Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland, designed it in the National Romantic style. He also designed Gamlehaugen, and the stone buildings at Bryggen. The building has been protected against non-trivial modifications since 2003.[2]

History

The interior of the station just after the opening in 1913

Having been established in 1921, Norsk Spisevognselskap 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 established a kiosk at the station on 1 May 1922.

The same year, 1922, the company contemplated establishing a hotel near the railway station. The plan materialised in the construction of Hotel Terminus, which was owned in part by NSB, in part by Spisevognselskapet and in part by other parties.

On 2 April 1937, Spisevognselskapet established a restaurant in the station.[3]

  • Bergen station
    Bergen station
  • NSB El 18 class electric locomotive no 2249 awaits departure from Bergen station with an Oslo S-bound express train
    NSB El 18 class electric locomotive no 2249 awaits departure from Bergen station with an Oslo S-bound express train

References

  1. ^ "Grafiske togruter fastlagt for rutetermin R18". Archived from the original on 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  2. ^ Order to protect Bergen Railway Station Archived November 6, 2005, at the Wayback Machine (in Norwegian)
  3. ^ Just, Carl (1949). A/S Norsk Spisevognselskap 1919–1949 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk Spisevognselskap. pp. 58–60. OCLC 40310643.
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Preceding station Following station
terminus Bergen Line Arna
Preceding station Express trains Following station
terminus F4 Bergen–Oslo S   Arna
Preceding station Local trains Following station
terminus   Bergen Commuter Rail   Arna