Flåmsbana
Steep mountain railway climbing from fjord to high plateau through twenty mostly hand-dug tunnels.
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This guide to Flåmsbana, the Flåm Railway near Bergen, is about appetite rather than scenery: the rallar, the travelling navvies who spent the nineteen-twenties and thirties carving the line out of the mountain. It follows their wooden barracks, their hand-drilled tunnels and the household arithmetic of their wages. Best heard on the platform at Flåm, looking up the valley before you board.
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