Strand Station (Norwegian: Strand holdeplass) was a railway station on Drammen Line in Norway from 1931 to 1973.
It was opened in 1931. It served the neighborhood Strand between Høvik and Stabekk, mainly a residential area. With Strand Station located 8.74 km from Oslo V, the more central station Høvik was located only 1.0 km west of Strand. Hence, passenger traffic to Strand was discontinued in 1973.
Famous quotes containing the words strand and/or station:
“The annals of this voracious beach! who could write them, unless it were a shipwrecked sailor? How many who have seen it have seen it only in the midst of danger and distress, the last strip of earth which their mortal eyes beheld. Think of the amount of suffering which a single strand had witnessed! The ancients would have represented it as a sea-monster with open jaws, more terrible than Scylla and Charybdis.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Say first, of God above, or Man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of Man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Thro’ worlds unnumber’d tho’ the God be known,
‘Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
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—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)