Gransherad Station

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Gransherad
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The station area in 2015
General information
Location Gransherad,  Notodden
Norway
Coordinates 59°41′31″N9°02′39″E / 59.69194°N 9.04417°E / 59.69194; 9.04417
Elevation187 m
Owned by Norwegian State Railways
Operated byNorwegian State Railways
Line(s) Tinnoset Line
Distance170.45 km
Platforms1
Construction
Architect Thorvald Astrup
History
Opened9 August 1909
Closed1 January 1991

Gransherad Station (Norwegian : Gransherad stasjon) was a railway station serving Gransherad in Notodden, Norway on the Tinnoset Line from 1909 to the line closed in 1991.

Designed by Thorvald Astrup it opened on 9 August 1909 as Gransherred. It got the current name on 1 January 1922, but downgraded to a stop on 10 June 1968. NSB contracted the razing of the building, but the entrepreneur liked the building so much he instead moved it to his home village of Hørte in 1986. The station was closed along with the railway on 1 January 1991. [1]

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References

  1. Payton, Gary; Lepperød, Trond (1995). Rjukanbanen på sporet av et industrieventyr. Rjukan: Maana Forlag. p. 202. ISBN   82-993549-1-9.
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