Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 42, 2010

Ås Station (Ås stasjon) is a railway station located in the village of Ås, Norway, on the railway line named Østfoldbanen. The station was opened 2 January 1879 and was drawn by Peter A. Blix in Swiss chalet style. The station was modernized in 1992, when the section between Ski and Moss was upgraded to high-speed rail standard. In 2006, a cultural meeting place consisting of a café, concert hall and an art exhibition, was established inside the station's building, initiated by the local organization Galleri Texas. However, the maintenance and operation of the meeting place was transferred from Galleri Texas to the governmental corporation Follo Futura in 2010, since Galleri Texas no longer could pay the rental costs. The station is served by commuter trains on Line 550 of the Oslo Commuter Rail between Spikkestad via Oslo to Moss with half hour or hourly headway by Norwegian State Railways. Ski Station and Vestby Station are the preceding and the following stations, respectively.