The Thamshavn Line sabotage was a series of sabotages against the railway Thamshavn Line in Orkdal, Norway during World War II. There were four separate sabotages, all performed by Company Linge in an attempt by the Norwegian resistance to prevent Germany from getting the pyrites that were being extracted at the mine at Løkken Verk.
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The ThamshavnLinesabotage was a series of sabotages against the railway ThamshavnLine in Orkdal, Norway during World War II. There were four separate...
The ThamshavnLine (Norwegian: Thamshavnbanen) was Norway's first electric railway, running from 1908 to 1974 in what is now Trøndelag county. Today it...
City of San Francisco derailment 1942: ThamshavnLinesabotage – the transformer station for Norway's ThamshavnLine (an electric railroad) was blown up...
Among the most notable acts of railway sabotage in Norway was the ThamshavnLinesabotage. Occupied Poland became an important transit area connecting Germany...
Japanese occupation of Tulagi and nearby islands in the Solomons. ThamshavnLinesabotage: Company Linge in occupied Norway blew up the transformer station...
at Thamshavn. Kestrel (1942) - Fosdalen, sabotage the iron mine equipment to halt the increase in production. Marshfield (1942) - Nesset, sabotage the...
operation took place in April–May 1942, when a transformer station at the ThamshavnLine was blown up. The second operation lasted from September 1942 until...
line in Norway, after the ThamshavnLine, to be electrified in 1911. The railway service used the Telemark Canal until 1919 when the Bratsberg Line opened...
follow-up on the previous ThamshavnLinesabotage), Rasmussen broke his arm in a fall accident. In January 1945 he led a sabotage operation destroying a...
in several sabotage missions, including the sabotage against the Labour Service, the bombing of an important locomotive on the ThamshavnLine, and the bursting...
five electric locomotives. The Rjukan Line became the second electrified railway in Norway, after the ThamshavnLine, and the first that would be connected...