Flåm
Fjord-side village at the foot of one of Europe's steepest standard-gauge mountain railways.
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This guide to Flåm, near Bergen, follows Ingolf Elster Christensen, a county governor who spent the early twentieth century fighting for a railway that many locals did not want. It moves through parliament votes, road-building rivals and a county council under pressure, and the navvies who cut tunnels into the valley above. Best heard by the station, looking up the valley.
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