Steinkjer Station () is a

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located in the town of Steinkjer in

Steinkjer Municipality or is a municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Steinkjer (town), town of Steinkjer which is located on the inne ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...

county,

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. The station is located on the Nordland Line, serving both local and express trains northbound through

Innherred or is a traditional district in Trøndelag county in the central part of Norway. It consists of the areas around the inner part of the Trondheimsfjord in the central-east part of the county. The district includes the municipalities of Levange ...

and on to

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

county, and southbound to the city of

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is ...

. The staffed station sits adjacent to the

European route E6 European route E6 (, , or simply E6) is the main north–south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the countr ...

highway. The station is at the northern terminus of the

Trøndelag Commuter Rail The Trøndelag Commuter Rail (, ) is a commuter train service operating in Trøndelag county, Norway. It was operated with NSB Class 92, Class 92 diesel multiple units by Vy (formerly Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996), Norwegian State Railw ...

to Trondheim. An hourly service usually runs on this line.

History

Steinkjer Station was built as part of

Hell–Sunnan Line The Hell–Sunnan Line () is a railway line between Hell, Norway, Hell (in Stjørdal Municipality) and Sunnan (in Steinkjer Municipality) in Trøndelag county, Norway. The name is no longer in official use and the line is now considered part o ...

and opened on 15 November 1905 along with the rest of the line north of Verdal Station. The original name of the station was Steinkjær but on 5 June 1925, the spelling was changed to the present Steinkjer. Steinkjer Station was designed by architect Paul Armin Due. He designed a number of other stations built by the Norwegian State Railways, including virtually all stations north of Levanger on Hell–Sunnanbanen and many stations on Bergensbanen, including all those in Hallingdal. The building is on two floors with living quarters for the station master on the second floor. The building was built in

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architectural style with marked portals.

References

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