Classic route
Lokaltog L1
Spikkestad → Lillestrøm · Norway
- Distance
- 58 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 24 min
- Average speed
- 41 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Vy
- Train
- NSB Class 72
- Countries
- Norway
- In service since
- 1854
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Crosses Oslo end to end: the 1872 Drammen Line’s original alignment out to Spikkestad at one end, Norway’s first railway of 1854 to Lillestrøm at the other.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2571327 (27 km), relation 2571329 (30 km) — 57 km of the route between them
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 2214 (Zug-Nr. 2214)
More classic routes
- LNER Azuma
The Flying Scotsman’s route since 1862: and where Mallard set the never-beaten steam record of 203 km/h in 1938.
Wikipedia ↗ - Alfa Pendular
A tilting Pendolino leaning through the curves of the 19th-century Linha do Norte between Portugal’s two great cities.
Wikipedia ↗ - EIP Pendolino
Rides Poland’s 1970s Central Main Line (CMK), engineered decades ahead of its time and now being upgraded to 250 km/h.
Wikipedia ↗ - Railjet
Follows the old Orient Express alignment down the Danube plain: centre to centre faster than any flight.
Wikipedia ↗
More train routes in Norway.