Bergen Station

Bergen Station
Front facade of Bergen station
Location	Bergen Norway
Coordinates	60°23′25″N 5°19′59″E / 60.39028°N 5.33306°ECoordinates: 60°23′25″N 5°19′59″E / 60.39028°N 5.33306°E
Operated by	Norwegian State Railways
Line(s)	Bergen Line
Platforms	4
Connections	Bus
Construction
Architect	Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland
History
Opened	1913
Location
Bergen Station Location within Norway

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.

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.^[1]

History

The interior of the station just after the opening in 1913

The interior of the station 2009

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 to establish 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.^[2]

References

1. Order to protect Bergen Railway Station Archived November 6, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. (Norwegian)
2. Just, Carl (1949). A/S Norsk Spisevognselskap 1919–1949 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk Spisevognselskap. pp. 58–60. OCLC 40310643.

External links

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

Preceding station	Line			Following station
terminus	Bergen Line			Arna
Preceding station	Express trains			Following station
terminus		Bergen–Oslo S		Arna
Preceding station	Local trains			Following station
terminus		Bergen Commuter Rail		Arna