Kragerø Station () was 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 ...

located in

Kragerø Kragerø () is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional districts of Grenland and the smaller Vestmar. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kragerø. Villages in Kragerø include H ...

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 ...

on the

Kragerø Line The Kragerø Line () was a long railway line between Neslandsvatn and Kragerø in Telemark county, Norway. It was opened on 2 December 1927 as part of the Sørlandet Line. From 10 November 1935, the Sørlandet Line was extended from Neslandsvatn ...

History

The station was opened on 2 December 1927, when the Sørlandet Line was opened to Kragerø from

Lunde Station Lunde Station () is located in Lunde in Nome, Norway on the Sørlandet Line. The station is served by express trains to Kristiansand. History The station was opened in 1925 when the Sørlandet Line was opened to Lunde, and was the terminal sta ...

. The station was the terminus of the

Sørlandet Line The Sørlandet Line () is a railway line between Drammen (though this is connected to Oslo by means of the Drammen Line) via Kristiansand to Stavanger. The line is long between Oslo and Stavanger. History The railway was constructed in several ...

, but after the extension of the line from

Neslandsvatn Neslandsvatn is a village in Drangedal Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The village is located along the small lake Neslandsvatnet, about to the southeast of the village of Prestestranda. The village of Henseid is located about to th ...

Nelaug Nelaug is a village in the southern part of the municipality of Åmli in Agder county, Norway. The population (2001) was 161. The village lies at east of the Nelaug lake, which is regulated by a hydroelectric power plant. The most notable featu ...

, it became a branch line. Traffic was terminated in 1989. By 1994, the station was used as a parking lot. The station building was finished in 1925, and it was designed by

Gudmund Hoel Gudmund Hoel (25 September 1877 – 7 September 1956) was a Norwegian architect. He is regarded as the second-most influential railway architect in Norway, after Paul Due (architect), Paul Due. Biography He was born in Kragerø, Norway. Hoel gra ...

and . In 2020, the building was sold by the municipal council to the non-profit organisation Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kragero Station Railway stations on the Sørlandet Line Railway stations in Telemark Railway stations in Norway opened in 1927 Disused railway stations in Norway Railway stations in Norway closed in 1988