Flytoget
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thumb|Previous logo Flytoget (') 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, with extended services serving nine stops within Greater Oslo and taking up to 60 minutes.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Flytoget AS
- Company.logo
- Flytoget logo.svg
- Company.type
- State owned
- Company.foundation
- 24 November 1992
- Company.founder
- Norges Statsbaner
- Company.location
- Oslo, Norway
- Company.key_people
- Philipp Engedal (CEO)Endre Skjørestad (Chair)
- Company.area_served
- Greater Oslo
- Company.industry
- Rail transport
- Company.products
- Airport rail link
- Company.revenue
- NOK 1,019.1 million (2024)
- Company.operating_income
- NOK 65.1 million (2024)
- Company.net_income
- NOK 34.6 million (2024)
- Company.num_employees
- 343 (end of 2024)
- Company.parent
- Vygruppen AS
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.flytoget.no
- Image
- GMB BFM 71104 1.jpg
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- date of official opening
- 1998-10-08
- Commons category
- Flytoget
- inception
- 1998-09-27
- service retirement
- 2027-12-12
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Decision for a new airport connection
- Construction
- Challenges
- Reorganisation
- Operations
- Stations
- Incidents
- Rolling stock
- Class 71
- Class 78
- Future
- New tracks
- References
- External links
thumb|Previous logo Flytoget (') 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, with extended services serving nine stops within Greater Oslo and taking up to 60 minutes.
Flytoget transported 5.4 million passengers in 2007, a 34-percent market share of airport ground transport. The service, which has a top speed of , 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 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.
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