Rødberg Station
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Rødberg station was previously a business yard for Nore power station from 1915 until it was taken into use as a station building in 1927. It was the final station on the 92,8 km long Numedal line. The line was officially opened by King Haakon VII at Rødberg. The train journey took around two hours as the train had many stops. The line was built in order to transport materials used in the building of the Nore power station, but in the main it was used to transport people and goods up and down the valley. The station was closed down along with the rest of the line on the 31st December 1988, due to lack of use and high costs. The Numedal line was seen by many as the nicest of all the railway lines in the whole of Norway. The conductors on the line often knew their passengers, and if they had time, they were happy to drop their passengers off ‘at their door’. Today, some of the houses at the disused station are used as apartments, and the railway line is used for endurance cycling. The old station building is used by Numedal production, NUPRO, a business which offers work to people with disabilities, or assistance to people who need help to enter the workforce. The station had a turntable for turning locomotives and sheds where the locomotives stood at night. The turn table and the sheds can still be seen today.