Heritage route
Thamshavnbanen
Løkken Verk → Svorkmo · Norway
- Distance
- 11 km
- Fastest time
- 30 min
- Average speed
- 22 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Orkla Industrimuseum
- Train
- 1908 AC electric cars
- Countries
- Norway
- In service since
- 1908
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Built in 1908 for Orkla’s copper ore: the oldest alternating-current railway still in service, running its original 6.6 kV motor coaches along the green Orkla valley.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 42 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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