Rail transport in Norway Country Code for Norway is 76. The first railway in Norway was the Hoved Line between Oslo and Eidsvoll and opened in 1854. The main purpose of the railway was to freight lumber from Mjøsa to the capital, but also passenger traffic was offered. In the period between the 1860s and the 1880s Norway saw a boom of smaller railways being built, including isolated railways in Central and Western Norway. The predominant gauge at the time was (narrow gauge), but some lines were built in (standard gauge). The height of the era came in 1877 when the Røros Line connected
History of the Norway national football team other than that, there were few highlights. In the return game against the Hungarians, Norway were beaten 5–0. Thorbjørn Svenssen remained a mainstay in Norway's central defence throughout the decade, and when he finally bowed down in 1962, he had played an amazing 104 full internationals. At the time, he was only the second footballer in history to reach a century of caps (the first was England captain Billy Wright). Another national team star at the time was striker Harald Hennum, whose 25 international goals is a post-war record. Nobody knows what Norway might have achieved if Per Bredesen had