Skotbu Station

Historie

Skotbu Station is a railway station located at Skotbu in Ski, Norway. Situated 34.09km from Oslo Central Station, it is served hourly by the L22 service of the Norwegian State Railways' Oslo Commuter Rail. The station opened on 1 March 1908, after the local community had pledged to finance a new station. The station received a revamp in 2014. The station had 66,000 boarding and disembarking passengers in 2012.HistoryThe Eastern Østfold Line opened in 1882, with the Skotbu population forced to use either Kråkstad Station or Tomter Station. A station at Skotbu was permitted built by the Norwegian State Railways after the local population had offered to finance the stop. Originally named Skodbo, the station opened on 1 March 1908. It lacked a passing loop and was only manned to handle passengers and cargo. The station had 1,382 boarding passengers, not including month pass holders, in 1910. This increased to 3,404 five years later. The numbers were nearly twice this during the 1920s, with 7,377 in 1925, but then fell to 5,869 in 1928.The station changed its name to Skotbu on 1 February 1926. The original station building at Skotbu was demolished and a new building built about 1927. The line was electrified on 5 December 1958. This allowed for the retirement of steam locomotives and the closing of the roundhouse. At the same time direct services to the capital were reintroduced. The station became unmanned from 17 March 1969.