Finse Station

The station was opened as part of the Bergen Line on 10 June 1908, five years after the first hotel was built in Finse. Since there is no (public) road access, the railway is the sole access to the area. After the railway came, Finse grew as a recreational area, and also received a small amount of permanent residents, at the most 200 people, including a school and a store. The proximity and easy access to both Bergen and Oslo made Finse a popular mountain resort, but during the 1960s and 1970s the tourist traffic declined, as did the village, and during the 1980s it virtually died when the school and store closed. Finse Station still operates the oldest and highest situated post office in Norway, founded on 1 March 1904.^[4]

Paul Armin Due designed the station building in the jugendstil; originally with one and half storeys, it soon outgrew the traffic and was extended in length and in height. The second store was then built in wood. There was also two locomotive depots at Finse, used to store the snowplows.^[5] The restaurant was taken over by Norsk Spisevognselskap on 1 January 1928. It retained operations until 17 June 1946, when it was privatised.^[6] Finse was one of the bases for snow removal on the railway until 1993 when the Finse Tunnel opened. At the same time the station, at 1,222.2 metres (4,010 ft) above mean sea level, became the highest point on the Norwegian railway network.^[7]

• Jernbaneverket entry
• NSB entry
• Norsk Jernbaneklubb entry
• Navvy Museum Archived 2013-06-13 at the Wayback Machine

Preceding station				Following station
Hallingskeid	Bergen Line			Haugastøl
Preceding station	Express trains			Following station
Hallingskeid	F4	Bergen–Oslo S		Haugastøl