Bulken Station () is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

on the Bergensbanen railway line located in the village of Bulken in

Voss Voss () is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality and a Districts of Norway, traditional district in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages inclu ...

municipality,

Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. The station is served by twelve daily departures in each direction by the

Bergen Commuter Rail Bergen (, ) is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 2025 the population is 294 029 according to Statistics Norway. The municipali ...

operated by Vy Tog. The station opened as part in 1883 as part of Vossebanen.

River surfing

The Bulken Wave (Bulkenbølgen) is a well known

river surfing River surfing is the sport of surfing either standing waves, tidal bores or upstream waves in rivers. Claims for its origins include a 1955 ride of along the tidal bore of the River Severn. River surfing on standing waves has been documente ...

wave located in the

Vosso Vosso is a river in Voss municipality in Hordaland, Norway. The river starts at Tvildemoen, Vossevangen, where the two rivers Strandaelvi and Raundalselvi meet. The river continues through the Vangsvatnet and Evangervatnet before ending in the Bo ...

river about 500 meters from Bulken Station. The wave can be surfed when the water has a flow rate around 125 to 150 cubic meters per second.Tok bølgen i elva! , SURF , FRIFLYT.NO
/ref> Average water temperature from May to July lies around 8 °C. Surfing here has been featured in Ekstremsportveko.River Surfing from Ekstremsportveko 2009 on Vimeo
/ref> ;Average water flow and temperature

References

External links

Jernbaneverket's page on Bulken
Railway stations in Voss Railway stations on Bergensbanen River surfing Railway stations in Norway opened in 1883 {{Norway-railstation-stub