Kylling Bridge: the famous railway bridge in Romsdalen
Kylling Bridge is a 76-meter-long stone bridge on the Rauma Railway. Construction workers started building the bridge by hand in September 1913 and finished in 1921. It’s Norway's most photographed railway bridge and is known worldwide as a location used in many movies and series.
In this article, we tell the story behind the construction and how you can experience or photograph the bridge yourself.
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The Fjord Tours team
3 min readUpdated: Sep 11, 2026
Quick facts
Kylling Bridge at a glance
- Name: Kylling Bridge (Kyllingbru in Norwegian)
- Location: Verma, on the Rauma Railway
- Length: 76 meters
- Height: 60 meters
- Main span: 42 meters (self-supporting)
- Material: Hand-cut stone
- Completed: 1921
- Crosses: The Rauma River
Source: Bane NOR
Experience the bridge from the train
The easiest way to experience Kylling Bridge (Kylling bru in Norwegian) is to travel on the Rauma Railway itself. This railway runs over the bridge, since it’s still in use. You can either board the regular passenger service between Dombås and Åndalsnes or board the Golden Train.
The Golden Train is a tourist train attraction that gives you more time and a guided narrative. It also slows down at the bridge more than the Rauma Railway does, to give you more time to take photos of the valley. The narration also shares the story of its construction as you cross the bridge.
If you travel on the Rauma Railway, you still get the same views and the same bend over the river, but without the guided narration and stops. Be on the lookout for it, because if you don’t pay attention, you might miss it.
You can read more about the route in our guide to the Rauma Railway, which also has practical information about departures and how to get to Dombås or Åndalsnes.
The viewpoint and the journey there
You can see the Kylling bridge from a viewpoint. There’s a short hiking trail from Verma (a small village) that takes you to a viewpoint with an unobstructed view of the bridge.
Not far from the viewpoint, you can find the powerful Vermafossen waterfall. This waterfall cascades out from the mountain with a drop of 381 meters.
You need a car to get to the viewpoint, since there is no train station nearby. The village used to have its own train station (called Verma Station), but it has been closed to passengers for many years.
If you have a camera, morning is often better than late afternoon for light over the bridge and the valley behind, as the sun is higher over the mountains around Verma.
Engineering and history
The workers built the bridge by hand, without using heavy machinery. They completed construction in 1921 as part of one of Norway's most ambitious construction projects.
Conditions for the workers weren’t always the best. They slept in camps along the route and did demanding manual labor in harsh climates, including along the railway’s steepest sections. To this day, the bridge stands largely as it was built over 100 years ago.
The bridge wasn’t a simple project. Engineers had to figure out how to climb steep terrain while crossing the valley. The railway had to get down a very steep mountainside, but since trains can’t go straight down steep slopes, the track had to wind its way down gradually.
The bridge is therefore part of a bigger system of curves and tunnels built to get the railway safely down the steep mountainside. Instead of heading straight down, the railway winds back and forth to cover more distance. It curves through the mountain in a turning tunnel before continuing across the Rauma River on the curved Kylling Bridge.
Engineers described it as “a tiger's leap in stone” because its large stone arch appears to jump across the river.
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