Classic route
Sørlandsbanen
Oslo → Stavanger · Norway
Sørlandsbanen in pictures
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- Distance
- 598 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 8 h
- Average speed
- 75 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Go-Ahead Nordic
- Train
- Type 73 tilting EMU
- Countries
- Norway
- In service since
- 1944
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Norway’s south-coast main line, completed in wartime 1944: inland through pine and moor, touching salt water only at Kristiansand and the Jæren flats.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9526737 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 84 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 25 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of R 707 (Zug-Nr. 707)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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