The Norwegian Trunk Railway - Eisvold [Eidsvoll] Station, 1854. 'The line is forty-two miles , connecting the capital Christiania with the Mjosen [Mjøsa] Lake, means of brought the most in connection with the coast; from which they have hitherto, in consequence of the difficulty of internal communication, first strikes the traveller on viewing the mountainous character of the ground, is the impracticability of constructing a utmost skill has been required to overcome the difficulties, while the
The Norwegian Trunk Railway - Eisvold [Eidsvoll] Station, 1854. 'The line is forty-two miles , connecting the capital Christiania with the Mjosen [Mjøsa] Lake, means of brought the most in connection with the coast; from which they have hitherto, in consequence of the difficulty of internal communication, first strikes the traveller on viewing the mountainous character of the ground, is the impracticability of constructing a utmost skill has been required to overcome the difficulties, while the curves and gradients that had to be adopted, prove that these were not engines - which were ...designed by Mr. Robert Stephenson, who planned the line (executed under Mr. Bidder), [and] built by his firm at Newcastle-on-Tyne - had to be specially adapted to those heavy '.From "Illustrated London News", 1854.
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