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Narvik 
Location Place Narvik Municipality Narvik Coordinates Coordinates: 68°26′30″N 17°26′30″E / 68.44167°N 17.44167°E Line(s) Ofotbanen Distance 3.70 km Elevation 46.6 m Service Opened 1902 Platforms 2 Owner Jernbaneverket Line operator(s) SJ Connections 
3 km away 
to e.g. Bodø, Tromsø, Lofoten 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 currently operated by Veolia Transportation. The station is located at 46.6 meters above sea level and is 1579.9 km from Stockholm. It was opened in 1902 along with Ofotbanen and Malmbanan.
The station at Narvik represents the northern terminus for one of Europe's most celebrated night trains. The Norrlandståget leaves Stockholm around six every afternoon, reaches Lappmarken by early the following morning, and then traverses the mountains that delimit the modern frontier between Sweden and Norway to reach the Ofotfjord, on the south shore of which lies the port of Narvik, where it arrives around noon. It is a journey which has been praised as 'surely one of the most engaging adventures by train in all Europe'[1]
References
- ^ "Night Train to Narvik". Hidden Europe Magazine 15 (July 2007): 22–27.
A steam locomotive hauling an ore train at Narvik in 1906
Preceding station Line Following station Narvik Port Ofotbanen Straumsnes Preceding station Regional trains Following station terminus Ofot Line Straumsnes Categories:- Railway stations in Nordland
- Railway stations on Ofotbanen
- Norwegian railway station stubs
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