Flam Railway
The world's most beautiful train journey
The Flåm Railway is considered to be one of Norway's most important and spectacular tourist attractions. Every year, this amazing railway line attracts visitors from around the world and in 2014 Lonely Planet named it the world's most beautiful train journey...
The line between Myrdal and Flåm is open throughout the year. A trip on the Flåm Railway provides a panorama of some of the wildest and most magnificent mountain scenery in Norway at any time of the year. You will see rivers carving their way through deep gorges, waterfalls leaping off steep mountainsides with snow-covered mountain peaks, as well as mountain farms clinging tenaciously to steep slopes. Down at the bottom, you can enjoy the scenic cultural landscape of the Flåm Valley and admire the beautiful Aurlandsfjord. Aurlandsfjord is a branch of Sognefjord, the world's longest fjord...
Engineering skills
The Flåm Railway is one of the world's steepest railway tracks on normal track. This 20-km line has a height difference of 866 metres, making an average gradient of 1 in 18. The horseshoe tunnel that spirals in and out of the mountain is a testimony of one of the most audacious and skilful feat of engineering in the history of Norwegian railways.
Read MoreThe Flåm Railway is considered to be one of Norway's most important and spectacular tourist attractions. Every year, this amazing railway line attracts visitors from around the world and in 2014 Lonely Planet named it the world's most beautiful train journey...
The line between Myrdal and Flåm is open throughout the year. A trip on the Flåm Railway provides a panorama of some of the wildest and most magnificent mountain scenery in Norway at any time of the year. You will see rivers carving their way through deep gorges, waterfalls leaping off steep mountainsides with snow-covered mountain peaks, as well as mountain farms clinging tenaciously to steep slopes. Down at the bottom, you can enjoy the scenic cultural landscape of the Flåm Valley and admire the beautiful Aurlandsfjord. Aurlandsfjord is a branch of Sognefjord, the world's longest fjord...
Engineering skills
The Flåm Railway is one of the world's steepest railway tracks on normal track. This 20-km line has a height difference of 866 metres, making an average gradient of 1 in 18. The horseshoe tunnel that spirals in and out of the mountain is a testimony of one of the most audacious and skilful feat of engineering in the history of Norwegian railways.
Flam Church, Flam, Norway. Sept. 15, 2019
Flåm Church (Norwegian: Flåm kyrkje) is a parish church in Aurland Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Flåm. The church is part of the Flåm parish in the Indre Sogn deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The brown, wooden church, which has about 160 seats, was built by master builder Magne Essen in 1670. The present church replaced an older stave church on the same site that was demolished in 1670.
