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Bergensbanen · 9 August 2026

Seven hours across the roof of Norway

You left Bergen at 08:08. Between here and Oslo the line climbs from sea level to 1,222 metres, crosses about 100 km of ground above the treeline, and drops back down a river valley to the fjord. This page follows you the whole way — it knows where you are and tells you what's outside.

Opened
27 Nov 1909
Route length
~496 km
Tunnels
~180
Summit
1,237 m

When it opened it was called Norway's greatest engineering feat of the century, and it cost roughly a full year of the national budget. Much of what you'll pass through was cut by hand — the rallar, itinerant navvies who lived on the mountain year-round with dynamite, sledgehammers and horses.