Narvik Station

Narvik is a railway station located in Narvik Municipality in Nordland, Norway on the Ofoten Line. The station is located in the town of Narvik, about 3.7 kilometres from the line terminus at the Port of Narvik. It is served by three daily passenger trains from, respectively, Kiruna, Luleå and Stockholm in Sweden. These passenger services are currently operated by Transdev. The station is located at an elevation of 46.6 metres above sea level and is located 1,579.9 kilometres from Stockholm. It was opened in 1902 along with Ofotbanen and the Iron Ore Line.

The station at Narvik represents the northern terminus for one of Europe's most celebrated night trains. The Norrlandstågetcode: swe promoted to code: sv leaves Stockholm around six every afternoon, reaches Lappmarken by early the following morning, and then traverses the mountains that delimit the modern frontier between Sweden and Norway to reach the Ofotfjord, on the south shore of which lies the port of Narvik, where it arrives early afternoon. It is a journey which has been praised as "surely one of the most engaging adventures by train in all Europe".

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