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Statistics about

Rail transport

The statistics covers rail goods and passenger transport in Norway. Transport by foreign companies and cross-border traffic are included.

Updated: 19 March 2025
Next update: 27 May 2025

Selected figures from this statistics

  • Transported volume and transport performance, passengers ands goods
    Transported volume and transport performance, passengers ands goods
    20234th quarter 2024Per cent
    2022 - 20232018 - 20234th quarter 2023 - 4th quarter 2024
    Passenger transport1
    Passengers (boardings)78 219 93421 791 83217.30.64.4
    Transport performance (passenger-kms)3 512 755 8651 010 106 53814.1-5.615.2
    Transport of goods
    Quantity of goods (tons)32 235 2458 149 458-3.8-7.819.7
    Transport performance (tonne-kms)3 928 138 5131 003 040 507-7.5-1.11.3
    1Change in method of counting passengers (See About the statistics)
    Explanation of symbols
  • Passenger transport by rail, by type of route
    Passenger transport by rail, by type of route
    2023
    PassengersTransport performance
    1 000 faresShare1 000 passenger kmsShare
    All routes78 220100.03 512 756100.0
    Local trains - all routes57 21073.11 513 92543.1
    Lokal trains Oslo41 51153.1954 92927.2
    Airport Express5 5487.1283 8838.1
    Gjøvik line1 6612.153 8631.5
    Local trains Stavanger5 0776.585 2972.4
    Local trains Bergen1 6052.157 4791.6
    Local trains Trondheim1 8082.378 4752.2
    Regional trains - all short routes1 4041.891 2402.6
    The Røros Railway3280.455 3091.6
    The Flåm Railway7811.015 7750.4
    Other regional train routes - short routes2940.420 1550.6
    InterCity - All routes16 20920.7987 68728.1
    InterCity - Oslo - Halden2 4533.1169 8934.8
    InterCity - Oslo-Lillehammer5 5427.1327 8179.3
    InterCity - Oslo-Skien8 21410.5489 97713.9
    Night trains and long-distance traffic - all train routes2 9363.8883 33425.1
    The Sørland Railway7451.0186 4015.3
    The Bergen Railway9711.2309 3198.8
    The Dovre Railway8141.0250 8867.1
    The Nordland Railway4060.5136 7283.9
    Boundary crossing trains4610.636 5701.0
    Explanation of symbols
  • Transported volume and transport performance, goods national and international
    Transported volume and transport performance, goods national and international
    2023Per cent
    2022 - 20232019 - 2023
    Quantity of goods (tonnes)
    Total32 235 245-3.8-6.7
    National11 381 549-2.9-12.6
    International20 853 696-4.2-3.2
    From Norway3 359 1544.710.2
    To Norway17 494 542-5.7-5.4
    Tonne-kilometres
    Total3 928 138 514-7.50.6
    National2 660 831 711-7.6-0.9
    International1 267 306 803-7.23.9
    From Norway444 929 787-8.431.4
    To Norway822 377 016-6.5-6.6
    Explanation of symbols

About the statistics

The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 20 October 2023.

National transport

Transport between two places (a place of loading/embarkation and a place of unloading/disembarkation) located in Norway.

International transport

Transport between a place (of loading/embarkation or unloading/disembarkation) in Norway and a place (of loading/embarkation or unloading/disembarkation) in another country.

TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit)

A standard unit based on an ISO container of 20 feet length (6,10 m), used as a statistical measure of traffic flows or capacities.

Tonnage carried

Gross weight of goods including packaging and tare weight of vehicles, containers and other transport units.

Freight transport performance (tonne kilometres)

A measure of freight transport, defined as the work being performed when a means of transport carries a certain amount of goods over a certain distance.

Passengers

Any person, excluding members of the train crew, who makes a trip by rail.

Passenger transport performance (passenger kilometres)

A measure of passenger transport, defined as the work being performed when a means of transport carries a certain number of persons a certain distance, that is the number of passengers multiplied with the length of the journey.

NST/R and ADR (see 4.1.)

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