Haugenstua Station

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Haugenstua Station is a railway station on the Trunk Line located in the Haugenstua neighborhood of Oslo, Norway. Situated 12.09km from Oslo Central Station, it consists of two side platforms along a double tracked line and a disused station building. Haugenstua is served by the L1 line of the Norwegian State Railways's Oslo Commuter Rail. The station was opened on 1 December 1937 and received a major renovation in 2007. It has about 3,200 daily passengers.HistoryThe Trunk Line past Haugenstua opened on 1 September 1854 and residents were served by Grorud Station, some 1590m to the southwest. The somewhat closer Høybråten Station opened on 20 October 1921. During the construction of a line the railway company built a navvy house at Høybråten. With the opening of the line, this was moved and converted to a house for the gatekeeper for the level crossing at Haugenstua. When the line was doubled in 1903, the road was placed in an underpass and the gatekeeper's house fell out of use. The line past Haugenstua received double track in 1903 and was electrified in 1927. At one place, during the steam train era, the steep gradient of the line through a curve gave the trains sufficiently slow speed that daring passengers could attempt to board it by jumping on. The line was electrified in 1927.