Krøderen Line
The Krøderen Line (Krøderbanen) is a Norwegian heritage railway. It runs 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Vikersund to Krøderen on Lake Krøderen in Buskerud county. It was built by the Norwegian State Railways as a narrow-gauge branch of the Randsfjord Line and opened in 1872.
Original gauge was 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in). Timber was the main freight, and the line also carried passengers with several small stations along the route.
Passenger trains stopped in 1958, and freight operations ended in 1985. In 2011, the Krøderen Line Foundation and the Norwegian Railway Club began running steam-hauled heritage trains on the line from May to October.
The line has six stations: Vikersund, Snarum (originally Lofthus), Sysle, Kløftefoss, and Krøderen at the lake, with additional historic stops in its early years. The Bergen Line’s development boosted traffic on the Krøderen Line in the early 20th century, and there was a plan to convert the line to standard gauge in 1908. Today’s preserved operations use standard gauge (1435 mm) for the heritage trains.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 11:58 (CET).