Bjørnfjell Station is a Norwegian train station on the Ofoten Line, between Søsterbekk Station

Søsterbekk Station

Søsterbekk Station is a railway station on the Ofoten Line, between Katterat Station and Bjørnfjell Staiton. Situated in Narvik , Norway, it has direct railway connection to Narvik, Kiruna and Luleå....

 and Riksgränsen Station

Riksgränsen Station

Riksgränsen Station is a railway station located on the Norway–Sweden border at Riksgränsen, one kilometer into Sweden. The station opened in 1902 as part of the Ofot Line and Malm Line, and was the location of the switching between Norwegian and Swedish operations.-External links:* at the...

 (which is in Sweden). Located in Nordland

Nordland

is a county in Norway in the North Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is...

 county, Ofoten

Ofoten

Ofoten is a district in North Norway, consisting of the municipalities Tysfjord, Ballangen, Evenes, Tjeldsund, Narvik and Lødingen. It is named after the main fjord Ofotfjord, which is at the center of this landscape...

 district, Narvik

Narvik

is the third largest city and municipality in Nordland county, Norway by population. Narvik is located on the shores of the Narvik Fjord . The municipality is part of the Ofoten traditional region of North Norway, inside the arctic circle...

 municipality, it is 38 km from Narvik Station

Narvik Station

Narvik is a railway station located in Narvik in Nordland, Norway on the Ofotbanen. The station is located 3.70 km from the line terminus at Narvik Port and is served by three daily passenger trains from, respectively, Kiruna, Luleå and Stockholm in Sweden. These passenger services are...

 and 1.5 km from the Swedish border.

The Swedish Iron Ore Line was extended to Narvik in 1902. Increased traffic made a new station between Katterat Station (then Hundalen Station) and the Swedish border desirable, and the Old Bjørnfjell Station was opened in the fall of 1913. The present Bjørnfjell Station, located further east, was opened in 1925. The old station continued to exist as a stop until 1956.The elevation of the current station is 513.9 meters.

Bjørnfjell, which means "Bear Mountain" in Norwegian, is also the name of the mountain (peak elevation 760 meters) near which the station is located, and is used for the general area, through which European Road 10 runs.

World War II

The Battle of Bjørnfjell occurred on 15 April 1940 as part of the Narvik Campaign

Battles of Narvik

The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April-8 June 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War....

. A German prison camp was later established in the area. Yugoslav partisans were interned there, and 238 died.

External links

• Norwegian Train Station Database
• Bjørnfjell Station at Norwegian National Rail Administration site
• Bjørnfjell Station at NSB Group site