Flytoget

Flytoget AS

Type	State owned
Industry	Rail transport
Founded	24 November 1992
Founder	Norges Statsbaner
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Area served	Greater Oslo
Key people	Linda Bernander Silseth (CEO) Endre Skjørestad (Chair)
Products	Airport rail link
Revenue	NOK 689 million (2007)
Operating income	NOK 192 million (2007)
Net income	NOK 182 million (2007)
Number of employees	265 (2007)
Parent	Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry
Website	flytoget.no

Airport Express Train

0:00 Oslo Airport, Gardermoen(6 pr. hour) 0:12 Lillestrøm(3 pr. hour) Romerike Tunnel(14,580 m) 0:19 Oslo S(6 pr. hour) Oslo Tunnel(3,632 m) 0:22 Nationaltheatret(5 pr. hour) 0:26 Skøyen(5 pr. hour) 0:30 Lysaker(5 pr. hour) 0:33 Stabekk(2 pr. hour) Bærum Tunnel(5.446 m) 0:39 Sandvika(3 pr. hour) Tanum Tunnel(3,590 m) Skaugum Tunnel(3,790 m) 0:45 Asker(3 pr. hour) Lieråsen Tunnel(10,732 m) 1:00 Drammen(3 pr. hour)

Flytoget, the Airport Express Train (Norwegian: Flytoget) is a Norwegian high-speed airport rail link connecting Oslo Airport, Gardermoen to Oslo Central Station in nineteen minutes. Run by Flytoget AS (formerly NSB Gardermobanen AS), it operates on the high-speed Gardermoen Line using sixteen GMB Class 71 electric trains. Normal service frequency is once every ten minutes, with five of the services each hour continuing westwards beyond Oslo Central. The extended services serve nine stops within Greater Oslo and take up to 60 minutes.

Flytoget transported 5.4 million passengers in 2007, a 34-percent market share of airport ground transport. The service, which has a top speed of 210 kilometres per hour (130 mph), is the only high-speed rail service in Norway. Construction started in 1994 and high-speed trains began serving Gardermoen Airport from the date of its opening on 8 October 1998, although full operation using the 14.5-kilometre-long (9.0 mi) Romerike Tunnel had to wait another ten and a half months after severe leaks caused by the tunnel's construction led to the partial depletion of two lakes.

Formed in 1992 as a subsidiary of Norwegian State Railways, the company has been owned since 2001 by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry.

When the Parliament of Norway on 8 October 1992 decided to build a new central airport for Eastern Norway, they also decided that the main mode of ground transport should be by rail. While the previous airport, Oslo Airport, Fornebu, was located just outside the city limits, the new airport, Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, would be located 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of the city, outside the reach of existing public transport. The principle of the airport construction was that it was not to be footed by the tax payers; the entire airport would be built with borrowed money through Oslo Lufthavn AS, a subsidiary of the Norwegian Airport Administration. The same principle was chosen for the airport rail link—the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) creating the limited company subsidiary NSB Gardermobanen AS, founded on 24 November 1992, to perform the construction of the line. It would be able to charge train operators using the line, channeling the payments to cover down payments and interest of the debt used to build the railway. Profit margin was estimated to 7.5%.