Vakås Station

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Vakås Station is a railway station on the Drammen Line located at Vakås in Asker, Norway. Situated 21.23km from Oslo Central Station, it consists of an island platform and serves the L1 line of the Oslo Commuter Rail operated by the Norwegian State Railways. The station served 155,000 passengers in 2012. The station was opened on 1 July 1957 as part of the doubling of the Drammen Line.HistoryThe Drammen Line past Vakås opened on 7 October 1872. In 1916, during the process of electrifying the line, the route was rearranged from Vakås past Hvalstad, with the new route located slightly east of the old route. This was to give a good curvature to avoid the wooden viaduct at Hvalstad. From 1953 to 1958 the section of the line between Sandvika Station and Asker Station was converted to double track. Proposals for a station at Vaksås were launched as part of this work, although it was not approved by Parliament until 1954. As part of doubling work, Vakås Station was opened on 1 July 1957.The line past the station received automatic train stop and centralized traffic control on 12 and 14 December 1993, respectively. The station received axle counters instead of track circuits in 2012.