Ronglan Station
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Ronglan Station is a railway station
Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 located in the village of Ronglan
Ronglan
Ronglan is a village in the municipality of Levanger in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located southwest of Skogn and southeast of Ekne. The European route E6 highway goes through the village, and Ronglan Station on the Nordlandsbanen railway line is also located here....

 in the municipality of Levanger
Levanger
Levanger is a town and municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherred region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Levanger...

 in Nord-Trøndelag
Nord-Trøndelag
is a county constituting the northern part of Trøndelag in Norway. As of 2010, the county had 131,555 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-least populated county. The largest municipalities are Stjørdal, Steinkjer—the county seat, Levanger, Namsos and Verdal, all with between 21,000 and...

 county, 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...

. It is located on the Nordlandsbanen railway line. The station is served irregularly by the Trønderbanen commuter rail service to Steinkjer
Steinkjer
is a town and a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Steinkjer, which is also the seat of the county government...

 and Trondheim
Trondheim
Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, with several services not stopping at Ronglan. The service is operated by Norges Statsbaner.

History

The station was opened on 29 October 1902 on the Hell–Sunnanbanen line between Hell Station
Hell Station
Hell Station is a railway station located in the village of Hell in the municipality of Stjørdal in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the intersection of the Nordland Line and Meråker Line....

 and Levanger Station
Levanger Station
Levanger Station is a railway station located in the town center of Levanger, Norway on the Nordland Line. The station serves both local and express trains northbound through Innherred and to Nordland, and southbound to Trondheim...

 as the section to Levanger was finished. It is located near the intersection of the highway from Rongland to Ekne
Ekne
Ekne is a village in the municipality of Levanger in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located west of Skogn and about southwest of the town of Levanger. The lakes Sønningen and Byavatnet lie south of the village. The village has a population of 240. The population density of the village...

, near European route E6
European route E6
European route E 6 is the designation for the main north-south road in Norway, and the west coast of Sweden, running from the southern tip of Sweden, at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to Finnmark. The route ends close to the Norwegian border with Russia...

. The station was designed by Paul Due
Paul Due
Paul Due was a Norwegian architect and significant contributor to the stations built by the Norwegian State Railways.-Biography:...

and was built with a surrounding park.
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