Ålen Station
railway station in Holtålen, Norway
Ålen Station (Norwegian: Ålen holdeplass) is a railway station located in the village of Renbygda in Holtålen Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the Røros Line. The station is served three times daily in each direction by Trøndelag Commuter Rail between the town of Røros and the city of Trondheim. The service is operated by SJ Norge. The station was opened in 1901.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ålen Station” is railway station in Holtålen, Norway. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ålen, Station and railway, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q63806. Authority coordinates are 62.847, 11.312. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1901.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ålen Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.