Ninety-five metres
The water falls directly in front of you and the spray reaches the platform.
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No. The falls are on the Flåm line in Sogn, about a hundred kilometres east of Bergen, normally reached on a full day trip taking the Bergen railway to Myrdal then the Flåm line down. Many people fold it into the Norway in a Nutshell circuit combining train, boat and bus.
Yes, because what you do is look and photograph, and the platform is very close to the water. But prepare in advance: know which side the door is, have your camera in hand before the stop, and wear something that tolerates spray. The train waits no longer.
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A waterfall about ninety-five metres high on the Flåm railway in western Norway, where the train stops specifically so passengers can get out and see it. This is no ordinary station: there is no village here and no road, and the halt exists for one reason, the waterfall. The train waits about five minutes while passengers step down onto a platform metres from the falling water and feel its spray. The Flåm line itself is among the world's best-known railways: twenty kilometres in which the train descends some nine hundred metres through tunnels and steep gradients from Myrdal down to Flåm on a fjord. In season, short performances drawn from Norwegian folklore are staged at the falls — the huldra, a creature of the forest — an added tourist element that some enjoy and others find contrived. Access is only by train, and the line's ticket is the ticket. The falls are strongest in late spring and early summer during the snowmelt, and can weaken in late summer.
The water falls directly in front of you and the spray reaches the platform.
Twenty kilometres descending nine hundred metres — among the world's best-known railways.
Built for the waterfall alone, with no road to it at all.
On the Flåm railway, between Myrdal and Flåm