Tinnosbanen - Railway Stations on Tinnosbanen, Tinnos Line, Notodden New Station, Tinnoset Station, Gransherad Station, Grnvollfoss Station (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Railway Stations on Tinnosbanen, Tinnos Line, Notodden New Station, Tinnoset Station, Gransherad Station, Grnvollfoss Station, rlifoss Station, Lisleherad Station, Notodden Old Station. Excerpt: The Tinnos Line (Norwegian: ) was a 30 km Norwegian railway line that went from Tinnoset to Notodden in Telemark. The railway was part of the transport chain used to transport fertilizer from Norsk Hydro's factory in Rjukan to the harbour in Skien. The railway opened in 1909 and was closed when the plant closed in 1991. The railway is sometimes mistakenly believed to be part of the Rjukan Line. The railways starts in the north at the mouth of the lake Tinnsj where the railway ferries arrived from M l. The railway continued south from Notodden along the Bratsberg Line. The transport chain from Rjukan to Skien consisted of four sections: Tinnoset StationNorsk Hydro was founded in 1905 by Sam Eyde as a Norwegian fertilizer manufacturer, and the first factory was opened in Notodden. Fertilizer factories need a lot of energy, and then it was necessary to locate the plants near hydroelectric power plants, and at Rjukan there was a large waterfall. In 1911 Rjukan Salpeterfabrikk was opened. Tinnosbanen was opened in 1909 as a standard gauge (1435 mm) railway along with Rjukanbanen and the railway ferry service, and was the second railway line in Norway, after the Thamshavn Line, to be electrified in 1911. The railway service used the Telemark Canal until 1919 when Bratsbergbanen opened from Notodden to Skien. The railway was used both to transport raw materials to the factory and to transport the finished fertilizer to the harbor at Skien. There was also passenger trains that ran. In 1912 the state bought the Tinnos Line from Norsk Hydro, and started co... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8410015