Night train route
Arctic Circle Train
Stockholm → Narvik · Sweden · Norway
Arctic Circle Train in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 1,470 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 18 h
- Average speed
- 82 km/h
- Top speed
- 135 km/h
- Operator
- Vy Tåg
- Train
- Vy sleeper
- Countries
- Sweden, Norway
- In service since
- 1902
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Crosses the Arctic Circle bound for the aurora: the Iron Ore Line’s fjord finale into Narvik is pure drama.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2401040 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 127 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 41 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Vy Tåg — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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