Tag: trains

Strike-hit NSB also to cut 300 jobs

UPDATED: Around 170 train departures were cancelled Thursday morning after locomotive engineers went on strike against state railway NSB. More are expected in the...

Bad week for train service around Oslo

Norway's long-struggling train system has been receiving lots of extra public funding for improvements in recent years, but commuters in the Oslo area have...

Train lines shut down at Oslo S

Nearly all east- and northbound trains between Oslo’s central station (Oslo S) and Grefsen, Bryn, Lillestrøm and Ski will be shut down this week,...

Tourists sell out Oslo-Bergen train

Never before have so many tourists been taking the train over the mountains between Bergen and Oslo. The popular line, known as Bergensbanen, has been been...

Commuters told to brace for train trouble

Norway's state railroad, which is in the midst of some major refurbishing projects, warned that its annual summer maintenance program was also due to...

Roadblocks ahead for transport plan

NEWS ANALYSIS: As hundreds of thousands of Norwegians hit the road this week, to spend the country's long Easter holiday weekend at mountain cabins or...

Stalled train leaves passengers freezing

The main rail line between Oslo and Kristiansand, called Sørlandsbanen, was blocked on Wednesday after a train broke down in extremely cold weather at Herefoss in...

Cold snap halted trains in their tracks

After months of unseasonably warm temperatures, the weather finally got cold this week all over Norway. Thermometers sunk so low Wednesday morning that they...

‘Slow TV’ train ride a hit in the air

Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK's) groundbreaking "slow TV" program six years ago, which followed the entire journey of a train on the scenic route between Oslo and...

Delays plagued Oslo-Stockholm train line

The new high-speed express train line running between the Norwegian and Swedish capitals had a sluggish start to its first few weeks of service. Newspaper Dagsavisen...
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