Østfoldbanen

Oslo – Kornsjö
Moss train station
Course book range :	NSB 01
Route length:	170 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16 Hz  ~
Dual track :	Oslo S – Sandbukta, Rygge – Haug
Legend Oslotunnel (1980) 0.27 Oslo S (1854) Grønland, Hovedbanen / Gjøvikbanen Gamlebyen, siding to Lodalen Minneparken (approx. 230 m) 1.08 from Alnabru Bekkelaget (578m) 3.95 Bekkelaget (1879) 4.30 Bekkelaget (1988) Follobans 5.95 North Beach (1880) 7.18 Ljan (1879) 8.68 Hauketo (1925) 9.85 Holmlia (1988) 10.20 Holmlia (1932) 11.35 Rosenholm (1988) 12.86 Kolbotn (1895) 14.05 Solbråtan (1939) 15.78 Myrvoll (1919) 17.36 Greverud (1939) 18.25 Oppegård (1879) 20.12 Vevelstad (1985) 20.51 Langhus (1989) 20.82 Langhus (1919) Follobans 24.29 Skiing (1879) Indre Østfoldbanen (approx. 350 m) (approx. 500 m) 31.00 Ås (1879) 38.00 Vestby (1879) Hølendalen bruer (1996) (approx. 850 m) 49.00 Sonsveien Kambo (1898) Industrial track Mølleåsen (approx. 1700 m) 58.11 Sandbukta 60.16 Moss (1879) 65.34 Dilling (1879) 69.28 Rygge (1879) 74.00 Haug (2002) 77.01 Råde (1879–1921 Raade ) 82.21 Ørmen (1914) 86.51 Onsøy (1879–1919 Onsø , former personal stop) 94.26 Fredrikstad (1879) 97.75 Lisleby (1888, former personal stop) 101.01 Rolvsøy (1990) 103.17 Greåker (1879–1894 Greaker , 1894–1921 Greaaker , formerly Pers. Halt) Alvimveien industrial track 106.64 Sandesund (1879–1881 Alvim , 1881–1894 Sannesund , formerly Pers.-Halt) 108.38 Valaskjold (1932) 109.47 Sarpsborg (1879) Industrial track at Borregård Fabrikker Glomma Indre Østfoldbanen 110.96 Hafslund (1926) Hafslundbanen (1973-2001) 119.10 Skjeberg (1879, former personal stop) 126.10 Ingedal (1891–1953 Døle , formerly Pers.-Halt) 130.93 Berg (1879, former personal stop) 136.64 Halden (1879–1928 Fredrikshald ) 140.65 Tistedal (1879 as Femsøen , 1882–1921 Tistedalen ) 150.12 Aspedammen (1879, formerly personal stop) 154.79 Buer (1916) 158.66 Prestebakke (1879–1921 '' Præstebakke '') 162.30 Bøen (1933) 167.65 Løvmoen (1933) 169.12 Kornsjø (1879–1894 Kornsø , former personal stop) 170 Norway / Sweden Norgebanan of Gothenburg

The Østfoldbane , originally called Smaalensbanen , is a railway line in Norway that runs from Oslo east of the Oslofjord south to Kornsjø i Halden on the border with Sweden . The route continues in Sweden towards Trollhättan and Gothenburg as Dalslandbana and Norgebanan , respectively .

description

The route is double-tracked from Oslo S to Ski . There it divides into an eastern and western route. The western route is double-tracked to Moss and from there single-tracked via Fredrikstad to Sarpsborg . The eastern route, the Indre Østfoldbanen , runs on a single track from Ski via Askim and Mysen to Sarpsborg. From Sarpsborg the line runs on a single track via Halden to the border crossing in Kornsjø.

history

On June 6, 1873, the Norwegian Parliament decided to build the Smaalensbane . The construction work, for which up to 3000 men were deployed at the same time, began in 1875. During a visit by King Oskar II and Queen Sophia in August 1878, a test drive took place on the route between Råde and Hølen. The western route was officially opened on January 2, 1879, the eastern route in 1882.

In the 1990s, the western route was significantly upgraded by expanding it to two lanes between Ski and Sandbukta near Moss and between Såstad i Rygge and Haug i Råde.

Between Ski and Sarpsborg - for the first time in Norway - the ETCS Level 2 train control system has been in operation since August 2015 . As the first stage of the ETCS introduction in Norway, the route was inaugurated on August 31, 2015, and operations began later. For ETCS, seven old signal boxes along the route were replaced by a new signal box (Bombardier Interflo). Operations are controlled from the Oslo operations center. Nine multiple units of the NSB type 74 were equipped with ETCS.

The route was selected as an ETCS pilot route since there is no regular passenger traffic in the section between Rakkestad and Sarpsborg. Test drives began in November 2013. 130 million euros were invested in the project, including the modernization of the stations according to the S-Bahn standard.

Follobans

Map with the new Follobane (red) and the old route (blue)

A 22.5-kilometer, double-track high - speed line is under construction between Oslo and Ski, which will run parallel to the Østfoldbane. The Follobane will be designed for a top speed of 250 km / h and will not have any stops between Oslo and Ski. Most of the route will run in a single 19-kilometer tunnel, which when completed will be Norway's longest railway tunnel. This is to be named Blixtunnelen after the architect Peter Andreas Blix (1831–1901). Construction started in 2014 and the opening is expected to be in December 2022. The new line will increase capacity from 12 to 40 trains per hour and reduce travel time between Oslo and Ski from 22 to 11 minutes. The 2014 estimated construction cost was over 26 billion Norwegian kroner.

traffic

Since January 2005, NSB has been operating high-speed services between Gothenburg and Oslo in close cooperation with Tågkompaniet (since April 24, 2019 Vy Tåg ). Tågkompaniet is the operator of the Swedish part of the route with 30 employees with all obligations for traffic between Kornsjö , the border station to Norway, and Gothenburg , on which 385,000 train kilometers per year and 150,000 people are transported. This includes operational control, traffic and the monitoring and implementation of all permits issued by the Swedish security authorities. The traffic is carried out with two Norwegian express railcars NSB BM73 B, which with 210 km / h next to the X 2000 the fastest train in the Swedish rail network. The train is operated by Norwegian staff on the Swedish route. The double-track expansion at Moss should be completed by May 2025.

Web links

Commons : Østfoldbanen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National ERTMS roll-out funded. In: railwaygazette.com. May 18, 2016, accessed May 18, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} ETCS pilot goes live . In: Railway Gazette International . tape 171 , no. 10 , 2015, ISSN  0373-5346 , p. 7 ( online under a similar title ).
3. ^ First ETCS route in Norway . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 10 , 2015, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 512 .
4. ↑ Tunnels shall be blix tunnels. NRK, December 28, 2016, accessed November 15, 2019 (Norwegian). 
5. ↑ Gothenburg – Oslo. Snabbtågstrafik mellan Göteborg and Oslo i samarbete with NSB. In: tagkompaniet.se. Retrieved December 10, 2018 (Swedish). 
6. ↑ Norway: Implenia and Acciona are expanding Østfoldbane near Moss to two lanes. In: lok-report.de. July 2, 2019, accessed July 27, 2019 .