Rjukan Station
Rjukan Station is the terminal railway station of the Rjukan Line, located at Rjukan in Tinn, Norway. The station opened as part of the railway on 9 August 1909 as Saaheim, until renaming to Rjukan on 15 November 1912.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Tinn, Norway
- Also known as: “Rjukan station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rjukan videregående skole and Såheim Hydroelectric Power Station.
Rjukan videregående skole
School
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Rjukan videregående skole is a school, which is situated 220 metres northwest of Rjukan Station.
Såheim Hydroelectric Power Station
Industrial building
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The Såheim Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in Rjukan, Telemark, Norway, operated by Norsk Hydro. It operates at an installed capacity of 185 MW, with an average annual production of 1,033 GWh. Såheim Hydroelectric Power Station is situated 520 metres east of Rjukan Station.
Rjukan Church
Church
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Rjukan Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Rjukan. It is one of the churches for the Rjukan parish which is part of the Øvre Telemark prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. Rjukan Church is situated 1¼ km east of Rjukan Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rjukan.
Rjukan
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Rjukan is a town in the Tinn municipality of Telemark, Norway. The town was founded in 1908 by Sam Eyde, who started the plan of building a city from scratch, after buying the renowned Rjukan waterfall to make electric power for fertilizer production.
Rjukan Station
- Categories: railway stop, transport stop, and transportation
- Location: Tinn, Telemark, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.87711° or 59° 52′ 38″ northLongitude
8.58365° or 8° 35′ 1″ eastElevation
308 metres (1,010 feet)Inception
August 9th, 1909Open location code
9FFCVHGM+RFOpenStreetMap ID
node 4456605117OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Rjukan Station” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Rjukan Station”
- French: “gare de Rjukan”
- French: “Rjukan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rjukan stasjon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rjukan stasjon”
- Norwegian: “Rjukan stasjon”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rjukan Station”. Photo: Bergenga, CC BY-SA 4.0.