Horten Line

Horten Line
Skoppum Station was the terminus of the Horten Line, where it met the Vestfold Line
Overview
Native name	Hortenlinjen
Status	Demolished
Owner	Norwegian National Rail Administration
Termini	Skoppum Station Horten Station (1881-2007)
Stations	7
Service
Type	Railway
System	Norwegian railway
History
Opened	13 October 1881
Closed	2002
Technical
Line length	7.0 km (4.3 mi)
Number of tracks	Single
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Electrification	15 kV  16.7 Hz AC
Highest elevation	39.0 m (128 ft)
Route map Legend Vestfold Line from Drammen 99.54 km Skoppum Station 39.0 m to Tønsberg Vestre Sande Station (1929) 103.07 km Borre Station (1881) 25.9 m Langgrunn Station (1941) Rørestrand Station (1929) Steinsnes Station (1930) 106.51 km Horten Station (1881) 2.2 m Horten Port

The Horten Line (Norwegian: Hortenlinjen) was a 7.0-kilometer (4.3 mi) branch railway line of the Vestfold Line which ran from Skoppum to Horten, Norway. The line opened as a narrow gauge line on 13 October 1881, the same day as the Vestfold Line. The latter had been proposed to run through Horten, but instead a branch line was chosen. The Horten Line converted to standard gauge in 1949 and electrified in 1957. Passenger transport ran until 1968 and freight trains until 2002. The line was demolished in 2009 and converted into a combined walking and bicycle path.^[1] Skoppum Station and Borre Station have both been preserved as examples of Balthazar Lange's Swiss chalet style architecture.