Classic route
Oslo–Göteborg
Oslo → Gothenburg · Norway · Sweden
- Distance
- 350 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 100 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- Vy · SJ
- Train
- Vy Flirt · SJ
- Countries
- Norway, Sweden
- In service since
- 1879
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The busiest cross-border run in Scandinavia: down Norway’s Østfold Line to the frontier at Kornsjø, then through Dalsland’s forests and lakes to Sweden’s second city; a new fast line is planned to halve the time.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3121885 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 30 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 11 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 107
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