Vestli station
railway station in Stovner, Norway
Vestli is a subway station on Grorud Line of the Oslo Metro. It is the start/end station on the line. It comes after Stovner. The station is located in the Stovner borough. The station opened 21 December 1975. The station has a small depot for subway carriages beyond the platforms.
The area around Vestli, the northernmost neighborhood of Stovner, is residential. Like the station at Stovner, Vestli is located beneath some shops, though not as large as the shopping centre at Stovner.
The public source identifies “Vestli station” as railway station in Stovner, Norway. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Vestli, station and railway.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7923490. Authority coordinates are 59.972, 10.928. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975.
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This entry incorporates text from “Vestli 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.