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15-539: Strømmen is a town in Lillestrøm municipality, Akershus county, Norway . It is about twenty kilometers east of Oslo, and considered part of Greater Oslo . It has around 11,400 residents. The town has its origins from floating lumber and sawmills along Sagelva . Later there has been heavy industry at Strømmen, including the railway stock manufacturer Strømmens Værksted . It currently hosts one of Norway's largest shopping centre, Strømmen Storsenter . Strømmen had

30-462: A community cultural house (kulturhus), and a community outdoor swimming pool complex. At Kjeller , just outside the city, there is a military airport (1912) and several research institutes. The local football team, Lillestrøm SK , plays in the Norwegian first division . Their home ground is Åråsen Stadion . The nearby Lillestrøm stadion is used for training, and was an ice hockey venue at

45-442: A top-level women's football team, Team Strømmen until 2009, while Strømmen IF will play in second top-level from the 2010 season. This Akershus location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lillestr%C3%B8m The name means "the little [part of] Strøm", Strøm being the name of an old and large farm ( Old Norse : straumr , which also meant "stream" as well). Lillestrøm's history dates back to

60-409: A town ( by ) in its own right (a purely honorary status which has no effect upon the organization of local government, but is a matter of local pride nonetheless). The event is commemorated in an annual 4-day street fair, which includes music by high-profile Norwegian artists on several outdoor stages, food stalls, retail business exhibitions, and thrill rides. The whole thing (with free admission to all)

75-459: Is held in Lillestrøm's main thoroughfare and its connecting streets, which are closed to all vehicles for the duration. In 2002, Norway Trade Fairs moved from Skøyen to Lillestrøm. Norwegian national road 159 is a four-lane motorway connecting central Lillestrøm directly to Oslo. The European route E6 bypasses Lillestrøm a few kilometres to the west on its way from Oslo to the north of

90-414: The 1952 Winter Olympics . There are also two indoor arenas, one multi-purpose ( Skedsmohallen ) and one for football ( LSK-Hallen ), and in 2007 a track and field stadium Romerike Friidrettsstadion was built as a cooperation between the municipalities Skedsmo, Rælingen and Lørenskog . The local track and field club is named Minerva. Athletes such as Hanne Haugland and Håkon Särnblom have represented

105-466: The Kongsvinger Line (opened 1862) conveys hourly local trains to Kongsvinger as well as a number of longer-distance trains, passenger and freight, to and from Sweden . Kjeller , a village 2 km (1 mi) north of the town of Lillestrøm, is the site of Kjeller Airfield , founded in 1912, which has the closest operational runway to Oslo city centre. However, this is overshadowed by

120-550: The 2020 merger. The head office of Accident Investigation Board Norway is located in Lillestrøm, and is led by Grete Myhre . The University College of Norwegian Correctional Service (Kriminalomsorgens høgskole og utdanningssenter, KRUS) is in Lillestrøm. Facilities in Lillestrøm include hotels, Norway trade fairs, a brand new cinema, a mall, Lillestrøm torv, restaurants, a high speed commuter train that reaches both Oslo and Gardermoen airport (the Gardermoen Line ),

135-405: The club. Rugby is represented by newly formed Rugby League club Lillestrøm Lions RLK. 59°57′N 11°05′E  /  59.950°N 11.083°E  / 59.950; 11.083 Kongsvinger Station Kongsvinger Station ( Norwegian : Kongsvinger stasjon ) is a railway station located in downtown Kongsvinger , Norway , on the Kongsvinger Line and Solør Line . The station

150-484: The country. National road 22 , running from northwest to southeast, passes through the northern outskirts of the conurbation. Lillestrøm is connected to Oslo by two separate railway lines. The Trunk Line (opened 1854) runs to Oslo via the Grorud valley and is used mostly by commuter trains calling at all stations, as well as freight trains. Non-stop commuter trains, airport express trains, and long-distance expresses use

165-505: The high-speed Gardermoen Line (opened 1999), which runs mostly in tunnel to Oslo. The Trunk Line north of Lillestrøm carries frequent local passenger trains as far as Dal as well as freight trains to Eidsvoll , Lillehammer , and Trondheim . The Gardermoen Line (the stretch of which north of Lillestrøm opened in 1998) is used by airport express trains, regional trains to Eidsvoll and Lillehammer , and long-distance passenger services to Trondheim . Running north-east from Lillestrøm,

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180-417: The much larger international airport at Gardermoen (opened 1998), which is 25 km (16 mi) further north but just 12 minutes away from Lillestrøm railway station by high-speed rail. Lillestrøm is home to the following primary , lower secondary , and upper secondary schools: Lillestrøm municipality is controlled by the local Labor party , with Jørgen Vik as the mayor, he has been mayor since

195-401: The times river powered sawmills came into use for the production of building materials. Later Lillestrøm got its own steam sawmill which laid the base for the development of the area which became the town. The area was, by and large, a moss covered swamp-like area, at the time considered almost uninhabitable. However, the almost non-existent property values were judged to be a fair exchange and so

210-473: The workers started living and settling in the area around the sawmill, and Lillestrøm was born. On 1 January 1908 Lillestrøm became a municipality of its own, having been split from Skedsmo . At that time Lillestrøm municipality had a population of 4,351. On 1 January 1962 the two municipalities were reunited under the name Skedsmo. Before the merger Lillestrøm municipality had a population of 10,840. In 1997, Skedsmo municipal council declared Lillestrøm to be

225-765: Was built in 1862 as part of the Kongsvinger Lin and designed in Swiss chalet style by Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno . Later a branch line, the Solør Line, was built to Elverum . The station is served by many Oslo Commuter Rail departures to and from Oslo Central Station . There are also stops by long-distance trains Oslo–Stockholm, and some regional trains to Charlottenberg and Karlstad in Sweden. All bus services in Kongsvinger connect to

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