Mountain route
Fløibanen
Bergen → Fløyen · Norway
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Norway’s best-known funicular (1918): 844 m and ~300 m of rise from central Bergen to the Fløyen viewpoint above the fjord city.
Stations
- 0 kmFløibanen, nedre stasjon
- 0 kmFjellveien
- 1 kmFløyen
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5559352 — 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 2 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Fløibanen?
The Fløibanen runs 840 m from Bergen to Fløyen.
How long does the Fløibanen take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 6 min for the 840 m. That is an average of 8 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Fløibanen?
Fløibanen AS, with Blue ’Blåmann’ and red ’Rødhette’ panorama cars (2018).
How old is the Fløibanen?
The line has been in service since 1918. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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