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From the Voss Railway.

The purpose of the earliest railways was to connect the larger
and more densely populated inland districts with the coast, or, in
other words, the larger towns with their surrounding districts. In
the first place it was thought necessary to connect the largest
continuous inland inhabited district, namely, the east-country districts
round Lake Mjøsen with the capital (the Kristiania and Eidsvold Line,
(1854). Subsequently
Østerdalen was brought nearer to
this line of communication
by means of the Hamar and
Elverum Line (1862), which
was extended to Aamot in
1871. The connection
between Eidsvold and Hamar,
however, was still maintained
by steamers on Lake Mjøsen,
until, in 1880, a connecting
line was laid along the east
bank of Mjøsen to Hamar,
continued in 1896 far up into
Gudbrandsdalen, under the
name of the Eidsvold and
Otta Railway. In 1902 a line
will be opened from Kristiania,
via Hadeland and Toten, to
Gjøvik on the west bank of
Lake Mjøsen, called
Nordbanen (Northern Railway). The
other large towns that have been provided with railways are
Trondhjem, where a railway to Støren was opened in 1864;
Drammen, with the Randsfjord Line (1868), with branch lines to
Kongsberg and Krøderen; Stavanger with the Jæderen Railway (1878);
Bergen with the Voss Railway (1883), (of whose length of 67 miles
almost one tenth is in tunnels); and Kristiansand with the
Setesdal Railway (1896). A line from Arendal to Aamli was resolved
upon in 1894.

All these, as it will be seen, are local lines. The three lines
that establish a connection with Sweden have more the character
of main lines or trunk railways, namely, the Kongsvinger Railway
(1862), eastwards, the Smaalens Railway (1879), running by a coast

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