Scenic route
Nordlandsbanen
Trondheim → Bodø · Norway
Nordlandsbanen in pictures
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- Distance
- 729 km
- Fastest time
- 9 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- SJ Norge
- Train
- Di 4 diesel-hauled
- Countries
- Norway
- In service since
- 1962
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Norway’s longest railway: 729 km of fjordside, forest and bare Saltfjellet plateau, and the country’s only line across the Arctic Circle.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 19118349 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 131 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 37 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of R 471 (Zug-Nr. 471)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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