 On 27 September 1894, a committee was established to plan a branch from the Jæren Line to Ålgård.The following year, the committee recommended that a line be built branching from Orstad in Klepp, which would cost 348,000 Norwegian krone (NOK).Gjesdal Municipality offered NOK 60,000 of the capital, on the condition that NSB would build and operate it.