unharmed. The collision had happened next to Hammer's villa, which was used as a temporary hospital for the injured during the night. The King, who remained in Trondheim and also visited the site that night, stayed there until half past four the following morning. Victims The victims who died in the crash were all prominent guests to the inauguration of the Dovre Line. Captain Thoralf Bjørnstad was in the main board of Norwegian State Railways. Thomas Heftye who was a former Liberal Minister of Defence. Erik Glosimodt who was a railway architect who drew a number of the Norwegian railway stations, including the station building at Hjerkinn where the Dovre Line was officially opened. Railway engineer H.G. Hammer. Nils Johannes Sejersted was the director of "Norges Geografiske Oppmåling", now Statens kartverk, the official Norwegian map agency. Major N.C Ræder. Aftermath, investigation and trials The line was cleared and reopened within the week. In the meantime, trains could use the old track which ran alongside the new track where the accident happened. It was quickly determined that train no. 361 was supposed to wait at Marienborg for Litra D, and a question was then raised why the driver had not done so. Questions were also raised about the wisdom of putting so many important people on a single train, and of adding an extra train meeting on the schedule by pushing the departure time fifteen minutes forward. Four people were charged with the accident and put on trial. These were the train manager Halvor Skott, engineer Martin Øien and fireman Karl Stuevold of train no. 361, as well as Peter Wiig who had manned Marienborg station and was supposed to manage the meeting of the trains there. During the trial, some exonerating factors were presented. Although the crew of no. 361 were informed in the bulletin briefings at Tynset that there was an extra train scheduled to leave Trondheim, the wording used was "night to Monday". Although this phrasing is common in Norway today (it means "night between Sunday and Monday"), the term was new and rather unusual in 1921, and had never been used for trains leaving before midnight. The crew misinterpreted it, thinking that the bulletin was informing them of an extra train the following night. All the four defendants from the Nidareid disaster were acquitted in February 1922. All of them continued to work on the railway, indeed