Aurland
9 villages
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A lonely station halfway up the Flåm valley, where the trains going up and down still pass each other.
Where the landscape does the talking
Berekvam station sits roughly halfway along the climb of the Flåm Railway, deep in the narrow valley of Flåmsdalen, surrounded by little more than mountainside, waterfalls, and the rush of the Flåm river far below. It is best known today as the meeting point where the up-bound and down-bound trains pass one another on the single track — a small operational detail that has become one of the journey’s signature moments.
Before the railway, this stretch of the valley was simply a route farmers and travelers used on foot or by packhorse, following the river between the fjord and the high mountain plateau. The valley narrows dramatically here, with cliffs rising almost straight up on either side and waterfalls dropping from hanging valleys far overhead.
Berekvam has no village to speak of — only the station, the river, and the mountains — but for anyone tracing the old routes through Aurland, it marks a place where the landscape itself does most of the talking.