Flåmsbana Museet - Flåm, Norway
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N 60° 51.758 E 007° 06.773
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Flåmsbana Museet is located in Flåm, Norway.
Waymark Code: WMP64T
Location: Vestland, Norway
Date Posted: 07/08/2015
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If you have time to kill before the train departs, make sure you visit the Flåm Railway Museum. Building the Flåm Railway was a remarkable feat in engineering, and this museum illustrates the challenges the builders faced in detail. You'll find it in the old station building, 300 feet from the present one.
Flamsbana is a spectacular train journey that offers a panoramic view of some of the wildest and most magnificent nature in the Norwegian fjord landscape.
Flamsbana is one of the steepest trainlines in the world on normal tracks, where almost 80% of the journey has a gradient of 5.5%
The train journey runs through fantastic nature, past the Rallar road, steep mountains, breathtaking waterfalls, through 20 tunnels and offers so many viewpoints that many feel like travelling multiple times between the mountain and the fjord. In the span of a single hour, the train takes you from the ocean level at the Sognefjord in Flam, to the mountaintop at Myrdal mountain station on Hardangervidda, 863 meters over the ocean.
Scale: HO scale-1:87
What is the herald of the layout? (Is there a featured railroad line(s) for the layout):
Flåm Railway from Flåm to Myrdal.
What is the theme of the layout?:
Mainline operations
What is the era of the layout? (What time period does the layout depict?):
1940's
Is there an admission fee? If so how much..:
No fee
Is this location handicap accessible?: Yes
What type of location is this layout found in? ( Museum, Club, Hobby Shop, Business, Manufacturer,..:
Flåmsbana Museet (museum)
Layout Website: [Web Link]
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