Fagernes

Fagernes is a suburb of Narvik in Nordland county, Norway. Fagernes lies on the north side of Beis Fjord just southeast of Narvik and north of Ankenesstranda . Today Fagernes is best known as the terminus of the Ofoten Line. The Ofoten Line has its terminus at the Fagernes terminal, a large industrial area of Fagernes.
In the 1800s there was a large farm called Fagernes gård 'Fagernes farm' where Fagernes stands today. The farm was the largest and wealthiest in the inner part of the Ofoten district, which later became part of the former municipality of Ankenes. This farm was of central importance in the effort to get the railroad built from Kiruna to Narvik in the late 1800s. The wealthy farmer Statius Mosling at the Fagernes farm was very eager to have the railroad built to Narvik. It was also due to Mosling that the Ofoten Line ends in Fagernes and not in Narvik. When Narvik was separated from Ankenes as its own urban municipality in 1902, Fagernes was also included with it.

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