What is Carl Abraham Pihl?

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Carl Abraham Pihl
Carl Abraham Pihl (born January 16 1825 in Stavanger, Norway, died September 14, 1897) in 1865) became Norway's first railroad engineer and director.

Pihl studied engineering at the Chalmers Institute (now Chalmers University of Technology) in Göteborg then went in the 1840s to England. There he gained practical experience with Robert Stephenson and later worked for Peter Bruff on a railroad project in eastern England. In 1850 he returned to Norway and worked with Stephenson on construction of the Hovedbanen from Christiania (today Oslo) to Eidsvoll wihich opened in 1854. After the opening of the line, he returned to England, where he worked on both railroad and harbour projects, especially in Wales. Upon returning to Norway in 1856 during the Crimean War, he become the first managing engineer of Norway's Railway Construction Bureau. In 1883 Pihl became the first Director of the newly formed Norges Statsbaner or Norwegian state railway.

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Depiction of the first trial run of the rails, in 1853

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Stavanger   (help info ) is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.
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Royal: Alt for Norge ("Everything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath: Enige og tro til Dovre faller
("United and faithful until the mountains of Dovre crumble")

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Ja, vi elsker

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Royal: Alt for Norge ("Everything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath: Enige og tro til Dovre faller
("United and faithful until the mountains of Dovre crumble")

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Ja, vi elsker

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Chalmers University of Technology or Chalmers tekniska högskola (CTH), often Chalmers, is a university in Gothenburg, Sweden, that focuses on research and education in technology, natural science and architecture.
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Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of
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Royal: Alt for Norge ("Everything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath: Enige og tro til Dovre faller
("United and faithful until the mountains of Dovre crumble")

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Ja, vi elsker

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Hovedbanen is a railway line in Norway which runs between Oslo and Eidsvoll, although the term is sometimes used to describe the line all the way to Hamar. Built by Carl Abraham Pihl, it was opened on September 1 1854, making it the oldest railway line in Norway.
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Oslo   (help info ) (called Christiania from 1624 to 1878, and Kristiania from 1878 to 1924) is the capital and largest city of Norway. It is also a municipality, and a county of its own.
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Eidsvoll   (help info ) is a municipality in the county of Akershus, Norway.

Eidsvoll was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).
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Cymru am byth   (Welsh)
"Wales forever"
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Crimean War (1854–1856) was fought between Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire on the other.
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Norges Statsbaner

State owned
Founded 1854
Headquarters Oslo, Norway

Key people Einar Enger (CEO)
Area served Norway
Industry Railway
Revenue NOK 6,534 million (2005)
Operating income NOK 589 million (2005)
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