Norway Yearbook - 2003

Transport and communication
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Norwegian State Railways. Network, mobile equipment, traffic and persons
employed
Unit 19961997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Network at end of the year km 4021 4021 4021 4021 4 179 4178
Of which
Electrified 2420 2456 2456 2456 2 519
Double track " 131 131 131 131 196
Mobile equipment at the end of the year
Electric locomotives Number 101 95 92 92 92 90
Diesel locomotives 64 71 71 59 59 37
Diesel rail motor vehicles " 15 15 15 15 15 24
Electric rail motor vehicles 119 119 118 130 130 148
Ordinarycoaches 560 555 555 552 552 515
Sleeping cars 73 71 71 71 71 61
Buffetcars " 16 13 13 17 17 23
Other passenger cars 31 29 29 29 29 22
Post office and guard vans 20 20 20 20 20 11
Goodswagons' " 3509 3314 2735 2506 2446 2050
Seats2 50411 47639 47591 48427 47407 46545
Berths 2328 2261 2261 2261 2217 1953
Carrying capacity of goods wagons in tons1 . . Tons 122 139 109 140 87552 88692 84393 72549
Traffic-train-km, total 1 000 km 37228 36992 37417 35765 34211 34155
With electric locomotive " 15008 15276 15 446 13 297 11 591 11 342
With diesel locomotive " 5495 4726 4783 4473 4374 4246
With electric rail motor vehicle 14528 14834 14998 14924 15691 16083
With diesel rail motor vehicle 2 087 2 040 2062 3 047 2 533 2462
With diesel shunting tractor " 110 116 128 24 22 22
Passenger transport3
Journeys 1 000 40701 44744 46972 50019 50773 49396
Passenger km Mill. 2449 2 561 2 590 2 688 2635 2 536
Average length of journey km 60 57 55 54 52 51
Percentage of seats used P.c. 33 33 32 33 33 33
Goods transport4
Tonscarried 1000 14559 6575 7458 8299 7959 8190
Of which
Iron ore on the Ofoten Line " 8091 . .
Ton-km Mill. 3108 2399 2421 2456 2399 2451
Of which
Iron ore on the Ofoten Line " 329 . .
Average length of haul per ton km 213 365 325 296 301 299
Persons employed5 Number 11 916 6865 6713 6599 5912 5927
privately owned wagons. 2lncluding seats ¡n rail motor vehicles, but excluding seats ¡n restaurant cars. 3Excluding journeys on
free-ticket. 4lncluding service goods. 5Annual average.
Source: Norwegian State Railways Executive Offices. More information: http://www.nsb.no/
388 Statistical Yearbook of Norway 2003