norwegian called line kilometre norwegian railway line running railway main purpose transport chemicals plant port addition passenger transport wagons shipped kilometres railway ferry connected ferries operated subsidiary construction line started opened years later second norwegian railway electrified experienced heavy growth electric locomotives use world war scene norwegian heavy water sabotage 1960s production declined railway closed kept heritage railway history background power based industry started norwegian swedish investors bought establishing april year february met started working electric arc produce electric flame allowing complete process converting air electricity december founded followed today owned family des pays test plant started operation world produce synthetic potassium december founded plans start new plant moving closer source power improve efficiency possible newly independent government norway hinder construction hydroelectric power foreign investors major political issue time applied permission build power line june accept application despite offer state receive eighty years state guarantee nok million project mean time issue pure industrial versus general purpose railway line stirred local protests indicated interested building railway serve general public time common lines built primarily single company freight transport involve operation passenger general cargo trains expense railway owner heavy local protests transmitted parliament year agreement construction general purpose line april german group und today agreement creation factory time created companies owned joint ventures received concession build necessary operate railway thirty years july companies stock equity nok million construction time concession given construction railway started workers involved construction plant addition new potassium factory construction worker lost life landslide survived accident housing provided simple barracks laborers came family prostitution sale illegal liquor prohibition flourished lack proper law enforcement making known valley built maximum gradient addition line plant branch line went hydroelectric power station completed service technicians power station gradient construction led workers paid regularly took strike june men strike consequence member negotiations conducted august failed minister labour pulled reduced demands strike end october laying tracks started fall february train ran official opening line occurred august performed vii despite mayor referring monarch king oscar line initially operated steam locomotives cost steam power large june contract today berlin signed provide overhead wires electric locomotives second electrified railway norway connected main railway network electric locomotive taken operation november locomotives delivered steam locomotive help service insufficient safety routines fatalities employees sufficient policy initiated ships ferry barge named completed steam ship haul railways self propelled ferry gross ferry launched got major overhaul sister ship gross tonnes launched year steamship gross tonnes lake winter ships built ferries transported wagons passengers kilometres lake compete passenger steamship service closing railway ferries responsible passenger traffic lake helped boost passenger traffic trains years potassium transported december years later plants making profit transported cargo increased tonnes year tonnes plant expanded tonnes small hamlet turned town people tough time cargo decreased electric arc technology replaced method main product potassium 1930s products came production including hydrogen gases plant world mass produced heavy water passenger transport types trains corresponded ferries connected trains commuter trains transporting workers plants commuter trains initiated started building housing got stops stations kilometers mile commuter train took minutes month pass cost nok employees families seventeen departures direction week timed fit working times plant increased new stop opened passenger transport performed connecting passenger wagons freight trains trains operated direction day correspond ferry trains operate connection allowed transport transport agreed operate weekly night train service oslo service lasted 1930s initiated attempt attract tourists discounted direct trains taken war remained world war german occupation norway world war area massive struggle norwegian resistance movement february occupation entire docks closed foreigners german troops reached month invasion norway started ferries january lack coal resulted fired wood products production heavy water key component nuclear weapons necessary germany designs hydrogen plant mass producer heavy water owned time asked import heavy water denied lack export license production kilograms production increased kilograms day attempt resistance october failed caught germans consequence passenger transport april permitted soldiers police workers plant filled wagons stored indoors tunnel heavy guarding november united_states_air_force bombed hydrogen plant attack killed civilians failed touch plant located underneath seven stories reinforced concrete secondary targets attack station industrial tracks track attack caused great damage railway locomotives cargo wagons seven passenger wagons suffering damage total costs bombings nok related rolling stock germans decided cancel production heavy water remains potassium heavy water transported germany resistance movement aware plan considered blowing train places instead chose target ferry night shipment went entered ship placed bomb hull timed ferry blow deepest point lake time close land help save civilians board attack successful ship sank metres depth people board including german soldiers crew seven cargo heavy water people survived climax end war strong green revolution increased agriculture europe demand products production increased increased transport heavy burden transport ordered diesel powered ship gross tonnes launched older ferries reserve duty meantime number upgrades line locomotives bought followed diesel locomotives locomotives bought voltage line increased round trips day trains round trips station handled wagons tonnes potassium tonnes tonnes transported transported excluding ore trains total million tonnes million transported decline announced savings plan plants norway chief executive officer clear new technology production force closure plant replace petroleum based process situation named press source conflict local community initially jobs moved applied permission build power line death sentence permission construction power line granted production moved transferred production 1960s series cost reductions introduced line major commuter train workers plants went passenger train connection ferries went replaced bus applied terminate passenger transport railway ferry operating trips passengers cargo application declined permitted saturday afternoon sunday departures terminated transport freight trains mid passenger numbers fallen dramatically department gave permitted termination passenger services plan producing deficit agreement authorities create new permanent jobs create business fund donate nok million construction new road route lake terminated production closed production potassium years number employees reduced people employed operating railway railway ferries employees retired moved areas enterprise train ran july days plant closed production plants need railway economical transport products truck final hauled wagons coast scrapping closing terminated operations line passenger traffic remained rolling stock reuse heritage line closing foundation established ensure railway remained operational condition kept railway ferries rolling stock operational condition retained period maintenance remained rail network maintained foundation operated hoc charter services railway ferries foundation run money closed announced working preserve 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