page_title: Homansbyen Depot
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Homansbyen Depot / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Oslo Sporveier. Trikk motorvogn 7 (fra 1899, ombygget 1918) type AEG (kalt Union-vogn) og ditto vogn 25 med flere i Homansby vognhall.
context_page_description: Homansbyen Depot, officially Kristiania Sporveisanlæg was an Oslo Tramway depot at Sporveisgata 8 near Bislett in Oslo, Norway. It was constructed for Kristiania Sporveisselskab in 1874 and was the first tramway depot in the country. The facilities were designed by Henrik Thrap-Meyer and featured an administrative office, a horse stable, a forge, a workshop, a weighing shed, and a wagon depot. It had space for 28 horse wagons, 16 sleds, and 116 horses. The administrative office was built in brick and housed apartments, offices, and a laboratory for the veterinarian. The depot was reconstructed several times, and taken out of use in 1966. It was demolished three years later, and replaced with residential apartment blocks.
context_section_description: The installations of the depot were all built in brick and were rebuilt many times. The head office had two floors. The ground floor featured six rooms, four serving as offices.  Stablemen and coaches occupied the other two rooms.  The second floor consisted of apartments for the stable keeper and depot inspector and a laboratory for the horse veterinarian.
  The stable originally had stalls for 116 healthy and 12 ill horses. The stable was insured for 12,000 Norwegian speciedaler, twice the amount for the head office building. The wagon depot had space for 28 trams and 16 sleds. The 16 sleds were purchased between 1875 and 1879, and replaced the horsecars during the winter. The forge had space for two smiths and featured a small room where the horses were shoed.
caption: The depot in 1960
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