Classic route
Bratsbergbanen
Porsgrunn → Notodden · Norway
Bratsbergbanen in pictures
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- Distance
- 63 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h
- Average speed
- 63 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Vy
- Train
- Stadler Flirt Type 75
- Countries
- Norway
- In service since
- 1917
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Built in 1917 to carry Norsk Hydro’s fertiliser from the Notodden works to the sea, the Bratsberg line climbs from the Telemark canal towns past Skien and crosses the Sørland main line at Nordagutu.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3761876 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of 2474 (Zug-Nr. 2474)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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