Scenic route
Rauma Line
Dombås → Åndalsnes · Norway
Rauma Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 114 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 68 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- SJ Norge
- Train
- Class 93 Talent DMU
- Countries
- Norway
- In service since
- 1924
- Runs
- 4× daily each way
- Highest point
- 659 m
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Corkscrews down Romsdalen past the 1,100 m Trollveggen, Europe’s tallest vertical cliff, via the Stavem spiral tunnel and stone Kylling Bridge.
A late branch off the Dovre Line, finished in 1924, it spends much of its 114 km descending from 659 m at Dombås to barely four metres above the fjord, tracking the glass-green Rauma river. Film crews keep returning, the valley stood in for the Hogwarts Express route in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and in tourist season the trains slow right down at the great viewpoints. Åndalsnes arrives as pure theatre, ringed by 1,500 m Romsdalen peaks with buses onward to Trollstigen.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 950560 — 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 R 2343 (Zug-Nr. 2343)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Lesjaskogsvatnet lake
- Bjorli plateau
- Kylling Bridge over the Rauma
- Stavem spiral tunnel
- Trollveggen — 1,100 m wall
- Åndalsnes fjord finale
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