Farmers from the fjords should not travel unshaven on the train.
Farmers from the fjords should not travel unshaven on the train. Blades sold and prepared. Barber Røsche, Osøren. From "Midthordlands avis" 17. august 1928, p. 3.
Farmers from the Fjords
THE OS RAILWAY AND THE FJORD BOATS
It was the year 1927. Amongst the commercial advertisements in the local newspaper “Midthordlands Avis” stood this little advertisement, composed in a barber’s shop in Osøyro, the communications centre for inner Midthordland. Between the lines we can detect a cultural view, an expression of a social convention borne forth by two generations of regular transport services between town and country. The public transport services formed the basis for this development. They created conflicts and clashes, but also economic and cultural growth - a development which erased the distinctions between town and country. The close-up picture of Os railways and the fjord boats represents at the same time a major chapter in the story of transport in western Norway.
Os station just after the Nestun-Os railway was opened. (unknown, owner: Lokalhistorisk arkiv, Os (130))
In 1890 Osøyro was a little beach place. In the 1920s Osøyro had become a trade and communications centre for the rural districts on Bjørne Fjord. The steamship and the railway had combined to create the basis for this development. (unknown, owner: Lokalhistorisk arkiv, Os).
The locomotives were built in Belgium with a licence from the French factory, Decauville. (photo: unknown, owner: Lokalhistorisk arkiv, Os (1728)).
A ticket from the last trip on the Os Railway, September 1935.
D/S Midthordland at Vedholmen in 1891. (Th. Selmer, owner: Lokalhistorisk arkiv, Os).