#56 – Flåmsbana

Flåmsbana – From Google Images

From The Rough Guide to Scandinavia:

… the Flåmsbana, a twenty-kilometer, 900-meter plummet down the Flåmsdal valley to Flåm – a fifity-minute train ride that should not be missed if at all possible…

… the track, which took four years to lay in the 1920s, spirals down the mountainside, passing through hand-dug tunnels and, at one point, actually travelling through a hairpin tunnel to drop nearly 30m. the gradient of the line is one of the steepest anywhere in the world…

I really, really, want to do this ride.

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