Kragerø Station Explained

Kragerø Station (no|Kragerø stasjon) was a railway station located in Kragerø, Norway on the Kragerø Line.

History

The station was opened on 2 December 1927,^[1] when the Sørlandet Line was opened to Kragerø from Lunde Station. The station was the terminus of the Sørlandet Line, but after the extension of the line from Neslandsvatn to Nelaug, it became a branch line.^[2] Traffic was terminated in 1989.^[1] By 1994, the station was used as a parking lot.^[2]

The station building was finished in 1925, and it was designed by Gudmund Hoel and .^[3] In 2020, the building was sold by the municipal council to the non-profit organisation Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Bjerke . Thor . Holom . Finn . 2004 . Banedata 2004: data om infrastrukturen til jernbanene i Norge . Rail Data 2004: Data on Railway Infrastructure in Norway . Norwegian Bokmål . Norsk Jernbaneklubb . 82-90286-28-7 . 262.
2. Book: Aspenberg, Nils Carl . 1994 . Baneforlaget . Glemte spor: boken om sidebanenes tragiske liv . Forgotten Tracks: The Book on the Tragic Lives of the Branch Lines . Norwegian Bokmål . 9788291448008 . 180-185 . Kragerøbanen Neslandsvatn-Kragerø.
3. Dahl . Aasmund . June 1984 . NSB . Oslo . NSBs Bygninsregistering, Kristiansand distrikt: (Lunde)-(Nelaug) (Neslandsvatn)-Kragerø . 217-218 . Norwegian Bokmål.
4. News: Lindhagen Nilssen . Sondre . 9 May 2020 . Kragerø Blad Vestmar . 177 . 53 . 4 . Enstemmig kommunestyre: Vil selge til stiftelse . Norwegian Bokmål.
5. News: Brubakken . Jeanette . 30 May 2020 . Kragerø Blad Vestmar . 177 . 61 . 3 . Tar forbehold - ønsker retrettmulighet: Stiftelsen vedtok kjøp . Norwegian Bokmål.