Bekkestua is a station on Kolsås Line of the Oslo Metro situated at Bekkestua

Bekkestua

Bekkestua is a town in the municipality of Bærum, Norway, with a busy bus terminal and a station on one of Oslo's westbound T-bane lines, Kolsåsbanen. It also has its own library, McDonalds, police station and fire station...

 in Bærum

Bærum

is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika. Bærum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. A suburb of Oslo, Bærum is located on the west coast of the city....

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

.

Located between Egne Hjem

Egne hjem (station)

Egne hjem was a Oslo Metro and Oslo Tramway station on the Kolsås Line located in Bærum, Norway. The station is situated between Ringstabekk and Bekkestua, from Stortinget....

 and Gjønnes

Gjønnes (station)

Gjønnes is a station on the Kolsås Line of the Oslo Metro system. It is located between Haslum and Bekkestua, from Stortinget.The station was opened in 1924 as part of the tramway Lilleaker Line....

 it is being served by the Oslo Tramway line 13 while the Kolsås Line is closed for upgrade. Between 1 July 2003 and November 2004, Bekkestua was the end station on the Kolsås Line.

Since 2 December 2007 tram operations (line 13) have returned on this line from Jar to Bekkestua. Operations beyond Jar use SL95

SL95

SL95 is a series of 32 low-floor, articulated trams operated on the Oslo Tramway. The series is built by Ansaldo/Firema of Italy and delivered between 1999 and 2004. Capacity for the eight-axle, three-section vehicles is 212 passengers, of which 88 can be seated. The name derives from being ordered...

 trams as there is no turnback loop at Bekkestua. The tram operations were discontinued in 2009.

The company responsible for public transport in Oslo, Ruter

Ruter

Ruter As is the public transport authority for Oslo and Akershus, Norway. The company, organized as a limited company is responsible for managing, but not operating, public transport in the two counties, including bus, the Oslo Metro, the Oslo Tramway and ferries...

, has the long-term objective of opening the Kolsås Line for Metro use again.

The station was reopened on August 15 2011 and is currently the terminus of the Kolsås Line.