History
Lysaker is an original station on the Drammen Line that opened on 7 October 1872. In 1914 the station building burnt down and was replaced by a new building in 1917, giving the station a center platform. At the same time the railway was converted from narrow to standard gauge and a new bridge over Lysakerelven was built. In 1922, the line was rebuilt to double track and electrified from Oslo West Station to Sandvika. The current station with two platforms and shelter was built in 1987 after the old station building had been demolished. Lysaker served as the closest railway station to Oslo Airport, Fornebu until it closed in 1998; because of this the station was branded as Lysaker/Fornebu from 27 May 1990 to 7 October 1998, but always retained Lysaker as the sole technical name.
During World War II, Lysaker Station was hit by five sabotage missions by the Norwegian resistance movement, in which tanks of gasoline, attached or not attached to railroad cars, were blown up. The sabotages took place on 16 December 1944 and 9, 10, 12 and 13 January 1945. On 13 January a tanker truck was attacked as well. There were three additional attacks on Lysaker in 1944 and 1945, two of them against factories and workshops. Also, the Lysaker Bridge sabotage took place in the immediate vicinity of the station.
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