Flåmsbana

After leaving Bergen we spent two nights in Flåm; a small village situated in the innermost part of the Aurlandsfjord, a tributary of the 204 kilometres long Sognefjord. A major part of the attraction of Flåm is the trip to get there. The Flåmsbana, or Flåm Railway is one of the worlds steepest railway lines on normal gauge. The gradient is 55/1000 on almost 80% of the line, i.e. a gradient of one in eighteen. It is only 20 km long, but took 20 years to build and has 20 tunnels and takes about 40 minutes to travel.