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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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Thamshavn Line sabotage

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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...

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Thamshavn Line

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The Thamshavn Line (Norwegian: Thamshavnbanen) was Norway's first electric railway, running from 1908 to 1974 in what is now Trøndelag county. Today it...

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Rail sabotage

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City of San Francisco derailment 1942: Thamshavn Line sabotage – the transformer station for Norway's Thamshavn Line (an electric railroad) was blown up...

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Railway sabotage during World War II

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Among the most notable acts of railway sabotage in Norway was the Thamshavn Line sabotage. Occupied Poland became an important transit area connecting Germany...

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May 1942

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Japanese occupation of Tulagi and nearby islands in the Solomons. Thamshavn Line sabotage: Company Linge in occupied Norway blew up the transformer station...

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List of Special Operations Executive operations

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at Thamshavn. Kestrel (1942) - Fosdalen, sabotage the iron mine equipment to halt the increase in production. Marshfield (1942) - Nesset, sabotage the...

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Peter Deinboll

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operation took place in April–May 1942, when a transformer station at the Thamshavn Line was blown up. The second operation lasted from September 1942 until...

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Tinnoset Line

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line in Norway, after the Thamshavn Line, to be electrified in 1911. The railway service used the Telemark Canal until 1919 when the Bratsberg Line opened...

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Birger Rasmussen

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follow-up on the previous Thamshavn Line sabotage), Rasmussen broke his arm in a fall accident. In January 1945 he led a sabotage operation destroying a...

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Edvard Tallaksen

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in several sabotage missions, including the sabotage against the Labour Service, the bombing of an important locomotive on the Thamshavn Line, and the bursting...

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Rjukan Line

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five electric locomotives. The Rjukan Line became the second electrified railway in Norway, after the Thamshavn Line, and the first that would be connected...

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