In Norway, a number of main lines were in the 19th century built with narrow gauge, 3 ft 6 in, to save cost in a sparsely populated mountainous country. This included Norway's first own long-distance
Carl Abraham Pihl and his entourage inspecting the construction of the Røros Line in 1877
Støren Station on the Røros Line during the 1880s
Holmestrand Station on the Vestfold Line in 1906
Thamshavn Line
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The Thamshavn Line was Norway's first electric railway, running from 1908 to 1974 in what is now Trøndelag county. Today it is operated as a heritage railway and is the world's oldest railway running
Narrow-gauge railways in Norway
…railways had 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) and one had 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in). A few railways partly still are operated as museum railways, specifically the Thamshavn Line, Urskog–Høland Line and the Setesdal Line. The Trondheim Tramway is also narrow gauge…
Passenger train at Bårdshaug Station in 1912
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A railcar at Orkanger Station
Electric locomotive No. 3 Ohma Electra. The locomotive was used on the Thamshavn Line from 1908 until the 1950s. In 1972 it was moved to Trondheim and displayed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology