Rjukan Station

Rjukan Station is the terminal railway station of the Rjukan Line, located at in Tinn Municipality, . The station opened as part of the railway on 9 August 1909 as Saaheim, until renaming to Rjukan on 15 November 1912.
Wikipedia
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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.

School
Photo: Ojtveito, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a school, which is situated 220 metres northwest of Rjukan Station.

Industrial building
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The Såheim Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in , , Norway, operated by Norsk Hydro. It operates at an installed capacity of 185 MW, with an average annual production of 1,033 GWh. is situated 520 metres east of Rjukan Station.

Church
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is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tinn Municipality in county, . It is located in the town of . 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. is situated 1¼ km east of Rjukan Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rjukan.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a town in the Tinn municipality of , . The town was founded in 1908 by Sam Eyde, who started the plan of building a city from scratch, after buying the renowned waterfall to make electric power for fertilizer production.

Rjukan Station

Latitude
59.87711° or 59° 52′ 38″ north
Longitude
8.58365° or 8° 35′ 1″ east
Elevation
308 metres (1,010 feet)
Inception
August 9th, 1909
Open location code
9FFCVHGM+RF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4456605117
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­stop_position
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Geo­Names ID
8558240
Wiki­data ID
Q7339170
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In Other Languages

From Danish to Urdu—“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”
  • Urdu: “ریوکان اسٹیشن”

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