Flytoget

Flytoget AS
Company typeState owned
IndustryRail transport
Founded24 November 1992[1]
FounderNorges Statsbaner[2]
HeadquartersOslo, Norway[1]
Area served
Greater Oslo
Key people
Philipp Engedal (CEO)
Endre Skjørestad (Chair)[3]
ProductsAirport rail link
RevenueNOK 689 million (2007)[3]
Increase NOK 192 million (2007)[3]
Increase NOK 182 million (2007)[3]
Number of employees
265 (2007)[3]
ParentNorwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry[3]
Websiteflytoget.no
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Flytoget (English: The Airport Express Train) is a high-speed airport railway service connecting Oslo Airport to Oslo Central Station. Run by Flytoget AS (formerly NSB Gardermobanen AS), it operates on the high-speed Gardermoen Line using sixteen GMB Class 71 electric trains. Normal service frequency is once every ten minutes, with five of the services each hour continuing westwards beyond Oslo Central. The journey takes nineteen minutes, [4] with extended services serving nine stops within Greater Oslo and taking up to 60 minutes.

Flytoget transported 5.4 million passengers in 2007,[3] a 34-percent market share of airport ground transport.[5] The service, which has a top speed of 210 kilometres per hour (130 mph), is the only high-speed rail service in Norway. Construction started in 1994 and high-speed trains began serving Gardermoen Airport from the date of its opening on 8 October 1998, although full operation using the 14.5-kilometre-long (9.0 mi) Romerike Tunnel had to wait another ten and a half months after severe leaks caused by the tunnel's construction led to the partial depletion of two lakes.

Formed in 1992 as a subsidiary of Norwegian State Railways, the company has been owned since 2001 by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry.

  1. ^ a b Brønnøysund Register Centre. "Nøkkelopplysninger Flytoget AS" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2008-05-20.
  2. ^ Flytoget AS. "History". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Flytoget AS (2008). "Annual Report 2007" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2008-09-13.
  4. ^ Flytoget AS. "About Flytoget, the Airport Express Train". Archived from the original on 2007-11-17. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
  5. ^ Flytoget AS (2007-10-21). "Rekordresultat gir utbytte" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2008-09-13.