Engerjordet (station)

Engerjordet
Engerjordet Station ca. 1910-1915
General information
Location	Oslo Norway
Coordinates	59°56′57.10″N 10°41′57.15″E / 59.9491944°N 10.6992083°E / 59.9491944; 10.6992083
Owned by	Holmenkolbanen
Line(s)	Holmenkollen Line
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
History
Opened	1898
Closed	1935

Engerjordet is a former light rail station on the Holmenkollen Line in Oslo, Norway. It opened in 1898, to serve the resident Holmenkolbanen's executives. The station had a simple wooden platform and saw limited patronage. It was closed in 1935.

The station was established concurrently with the line, on 31 May 1898.^[1] The distance to the neighboring stations was negligible: only 250 meters to Slemdal However, two influential people in the operating company Holmenkolbanen lived in the vicinity. The one was engineer Halvor Emil Heyerdahl, who lived at Heyerdahls vei 1 (named for himself). Presumably the station was at first not official, but trams would stop there to let the executives on and off. During the 1900s it received a platform. By then Johannes Harbitz, who also lived adjacent to the station, had become the company's director. Owing to limited patronage the station was closed in 1935, despite protests from residents.^[1] It remains the only station to have been closed on the line.^[2]

The station was situated at the intersection of Slemsdalsveien and Heyerdals vei. It was equipped with a simple, wooden platform on the one side. The station was located between Slemdal and Ris. Due to the vicinity to these stations there were few passengers who used Engerjordet.^[2] The station was named for the farm Enger.^[3]