Vestbanehallen
Vestbanehallen stands beside Oslo’s City Hall Square, a former railway station with plastered brickwork and Italianate design. Its facade has arched windows, arched doors, and two low towers.
Georg Andreas Bull designed the building as the Drammen Line’s terminus, opened in 1872 for trains leaving Oslo westward. For more than a century, it served the Drammen, Sørland, and Vestfold lines. The Oslo Tunnel changed its railway role in 1980, and passenger service ended after the station closed in 1989. An early-1950s rebuilding added a waiting hall, while wartime damage in February 1942 led to several months of closure.
Since 2005, the Nobel Peace Center has used the main building for exhibitions and events connected with the Nobel Peace Prize. Heritage protection preserves the station’s historical features for visitors to see. Old photographs show the tracks and station much closer to the harbor piers, before surrounding Oslo developed around them.
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