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It stated that were confusions between train managers at Alnabru which triggered the crash. [9] It was a "misunderstanding between the shunter and another train manager" which caused the empty freight cars to roll. The train manager released the brakes on the carriages, in the belief that they were connected to a switcher, which
Rose-painting, rosemaling, rosemåling or rosmålning is a Scandinavian decorative folk painting that flourished from the 1700s to the mid-1800s, particularly in Norway. In Sweden, rose-painting began to be called dalmålning, c. 1901, for the region Dalecarlia where it had been most popular and kurbits, in the 1920s, for a characteristic trait ...
The journey, by train and ferry, was long and exhausting and on arrival in Christiana (now Oslo) he spent several days looking for suitable subject matter, eventually ending up in a farmhouse occupied by other artists in the area of Sandvika (or Sandviken), some 15 km (9.3 miles) west of Oslo. There, after painting scenes of the local fjord and ...
Train collisions in Norway (6 P) Pages in category "Railway accidents and incidents in Norway" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The Åsta accident was a railway accident that occurred at 13:12:25 on 4 January 2000 at Åsta in Åmot, south of Rena in Østerdalen, Norway. A train from Trondheim collided with a local train from Hamar on the Røros Line, resulting in an explosive fire. Nineteen people were killed, while 67 survived the accident.
January 3 – India – Ghatnandur train crash: 18 people died in a collision of two trains at Ghatnandur in Maharashtra [40] January 31 – Australia – Waterfall rail accident: The driver of a southbound passenger train suffered a heart attack and died; the train then sped out of control and derailed on a curve, overturning several cars and killing six passengers.
With 27 killed, including seven children under 16, [3] and 25 injured, it was the worst train crash in Norwegian peacetime history. [4] One accident victim was from the United States [5] while the rest were Norwegians, including the politician Tønnes Andenæs. Altogether there were around 800 passengers on the two 12-car trains.
Old Stordal Church (Norwegian: Stordal gamle kyrkje) or the Rosekyrkja is a former parish church of the Church of Norway in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Stordal. It is now a museum owned by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments.