Kravikfjord Station

You are now close to Kravikfjord station. The station was built and opened at the same time as the railway in 1927. The station building is made up of two construction barracks that housed the workers who built the Numedal line. The building has three rooms: a waiting room, an office and a storeroom. At Kravikfjord there was a siding that was used to load goods wagons with timber and firewood. The siding was used extensively during the second world war when wood was used instead of coal to power the steam locomotives. Right next to the station is a farm called Sunde. The railway foreman and his wife lived here. She had the job of receiving the freight wagons at the siding and sending the loaded wagons onwards with the freight train. In addition, she dealt with the forwarding of goods and mail. Right up until 1942 it was possible to send and receive post at Kravikfjord. On the side of the trains were slots where you could post letters, the letters were then sorted on the train. The post sacks were delivered by the train to the nearest station to where the letter was addressed. Kravikfjord was not actually a station in the ‘Norwegian railway’ sense of the word, but a stopping place and siding until its closure in 1988.