Bogstadveien
Tram-lined shopping street of brick apartment blocks, boutiques and cafés running up to Majorstuen.
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This guide to Bogstadveien in Oslo goes back to the spring of eighteen ninety-four, when the street became the route of the first electric tramway in the Nordic countries. It follows the blue trams, the company that ran them, and the townspeople who worried about what the new machines would do to the city's horses. Best heard on the pavement as a tram rolls down the middle of the street.
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