Kongsvinger Station
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Kongsvinger Station is a railway station located in downtown Kongsvinger
Kongsvinger
is a town and is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Glåmdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsvinger....

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, on the Kongsvinger Line and Solør Line. The station was built in 1862 as part of the Kongsvinger Lin and designed in Swiss chalet style
Swiss chalet style
Swiss chalet style is an architectural style inspired by the chalets of Switzerland. The style originated in Germany in the early 19th century and was popular in parts of Europe and North America, notably in the architecture of Norway, the country house architecture of Sweden, Cincinnati, Ohio,...

 by Heinrich Ernst Schirmer
Heinrich Ernst Schirmer
Heinrich Ernst Schirmer was German-born architect most noted for his work in Norway.Schirmer worked in Norway from 1838 to 1883 and put his mark on a number of public buildings...

 and Wilhelm von Hanno
Wilhelm von Hanno
Andreas Friedrich Wilhelm von Hanno was a German-born architect, sculptor and painter most noted for his work in Norway.-Biography:...

. Later a branch line, the Solør Line, was built to Elverum
Elverum Station
Elverum Station is a railway station located at Vestad, on the west side of Glomma of Elverum, Norway. The station is on the Røros Line, in addition to being the terminus of the Solør Line.-History:...

.

The station is served by nine daily train departures to and from Oslo Central Station. Four of them go to Charlottenberg
Charlottenberg
Charlottenberg is a locality and the seat of Eda Municipality in Värmland County, Sweden with 2,048 inhabitants in 2005.Situated some 7 km from the Norwegian border, the town has a population of around 3,000. Charlottenberg railway station is the last station in Sweden before the Norwegian border,...

 and Karlstad
Karlstad
Karlstad is a city, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city had 61,685 inhabitants in 2010 out of a municipal total that during the first quarter 2010 was 84,885 inhabitants...

 in Sweden, two of these are two long-distance trains Oslo–Stockholm, and all four serve as local trains Oslo-Kongsvinger with several stops in between.

All bus services in Kongsvinger connect to the station, with hourly service offered by Hedmark Trafikk
Hedmark Trafikk
Hedmark Trafikk FKF is the public transport administration for bus transport in Hedmark, Norway and owned by the county administration. The company plans, markets and organises the public transport in Hedmark, but does not operate any buses itself...

. There are hourly buses westbound to Oslo, northbound to Elverum, and buses to Charlottenberg, and local buses in Kongsvinger.

The restaurant was taken over by Norsk Spisevognselskap
Norsk Spisevognselskap
Norsk Spisevognselskap A/S, often abbreviated NSS or shortened to Spisevognselskapet, was a Norwegian state enterprise which operated restaurant carriages on Norwegian trains and restaurants at train stations and railway hotels. The company was established in December 1918, and started a catering...

on 1 July 1925, and subsequently renovated.
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