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Statistics on

Rail transport

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

Updated: 27 May 2025
Next update: 19 June 2025

Selected figures from the statistics

  • Transported volume and transport performance, passengers ands goods
    Transported volume and transport performance, passengers ands goods
    20244th quarter 2024Per cent
    2023 - 20242019 - 20244th quarter 2023 - 4th quarter 2024
    Passenger transport1
    Passengers (boardings)81 933 40121 791 8324.71.94.4
    Transport performance (passenger-kms)3 876 114 1621 010 106 53810.34.315.2
    Transport of goods
    Quantity of goods (tons)29 930 9718 149 458-7.1-13.419.7
    Transport performance (tonne-kms)3 642 608 0081 003 040 507-7.3-6.71.3
    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
    2024
    PassengersTransport performance
    1 000 faresShare1 000 passenger kmsShare
    All routes81 933100.03 876 114100.0
    Local trains - all routes59 46972.61 670 39443.1
    Lokal trains Oslo42 44751.81 050 59027.1
    Airport Express5 4776.7295 7547.6
    Gjøvik line1 6872.171 0931.8
    Local trains Stavanger5 8457.199 5322.6
    Local trains Bergen1 9132.366 0841.7
    Local trains Trondheim2 1012.687 3402.3
    Regional trains - all short routes1 5361.983 0572.1
    The Røros Railway3160.450 3871.3
    The Flåm Railway9561.219 3180.5
    Other regional train routes - short routes2640.313 3510.3
    InterCity - All routes17 29321.11 134 59929.3
    InterCity - Oslo - Halden2 9413.6203 2165.2
    InterCity - Oslo-Lillehammer6 0497.4390 58410.1
    InterCity - Oslo-Skien8 30410.1540 79914.0
    Night trains and long-distance traffic - all train routes3 0313.7940 73624.3
    The Sørland Railway7730.9199 4075.1
    The Bergen Railway1 1091.4362 3519.3
    The Dovre Railway7931.0258 3366.7
    The Nordland Railway3550.4120 6423.1
    Boundary crossing trains6040.747 3291.2
    Explanation of symbols
  • Transported volume and transport performance, goods national and international
    Transported volume and transport performance, goods national and international
    2024Per cent
    2023 - 20242020 - 2024
    Quantity of goods (tonnes)
    Total29 930 971-7.1-18.7
    National11 394 7160.1-12.9
    International18 536 254-11.1-21.9
    From Norway3 452 8212.817.5
    To Norway15 083 433-13.8-27.5
    Tonne-kilometres
    Total3 642 608 009-7.3-11.4
    National2 446 536 916-8.1-13.0
    International1 196 071 092-5.6-7.8
    From Norway464 901 7594.537.8
    To Norway731 169 332-11.1-23.9
    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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