Classic route
Østfoldbanen
Oslo → Halden · Norway
Østfoldbanen in pictures
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- Distance
- 136 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 78 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Vy
- Train
- Stadler Flirt Type 75
- Countries
- Norway
- In service since
- 1879
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Vy’s RE20 traces the Østfold Line down the east shore of the Oslofjord toward the Swedish border at Halden.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2438823 — 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.5 km from the shape of IC 105
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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