Information Centre at Gardermoen, was closed 12th of December 1998 after three years of operation. The Information Centre closed due to opening of the airport and the railway in October. During its three years of operation, the trains have run about 15000 actual kilometres. Roughly half a million visitors are supposed to have seen the model. Visitors have been able to start seven simultaneous running trains by pushing a button. Each train would then run one 100 m long tour on the railway which lasted about 5 minutes.

The model showed four displays of the railway through four large windows: (1) Oslo Central Station, (2) Børke, between Lillestrøm and Kløfta, (3) Kløfta station and (4) Gardermoen Airport station.

On the day of closure, I took some photographs of the model which I would like to share with you. The normal lightening of the model was rather dark (blacklight and soft spotlights). To get more impression of the model, I turned on a working light in addition. The light may then look a little unbalanced, but it gave me the opportunity to drop the even worse lights from flash bulbs. A used an 100 ASA Fuji colour print film suited for indoor lights. The camera was a Konica TL from 1970 with 35mm objective.

The picture to the left in taken by Hans Erik Bjerke when I started the railways for the very last time December 12th 1998 at 22:07.

View of the model as the visitors saw it when entering the room.