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#65 ·
Wow, great photo, mlm! The long exposure time makes it seem like there's ice on the water!
 
#69 ·
^^
Looks neat!

Skånetrafiken has finally started to replace Malmö's old city buses now. Totally they will replace and restaurate 180 city buses that runs within Malmö's city limits. 111 of these buses are brand new ones from German MAN.
The new buses will have surveillance cameras, full aircondition and so on - things that have been needed for quite some time.

Here's a link to Skånetrafiken's daily newsletter (with a pic of the new buses) that is publiced in Metro Malmö every day.
https://www.skanetrafiken.se/upload...oad/Dokumentbank/Rakavagen/2006/08_Augusti/20060815_ Malmös nya stadsbussar.pdf

Oslo gets new metro trainsets and new lines, but here in Malmö we're super happy about some new fucking buses! :D ;)
 
#70 ·
DSB still claims that the new trains from AnsaldoBrava will begin their run in 2006...

"We are in the end of the testruns" says DSB's CEO Keld Sengeløv

Also, ATP, Denmarks biggest pension fond managers, has said they would like to pump billions into the horrible state of the tracks and signal systems that is old and many years outdated, in a partnership with the public. They would exchange all tracks and signals, and maintain them for a periode of time, renting it out to DSB. This might finaly mean an update of the old tracts and systems and dramaticly reduce travel time....
 
#71 ·
Northstar: Congrats for getting the already impressive t-bane system extended! Those new stations are pretty good looking.

Btw. That map is amazing considering Oslo is slightly smaller than Helsinki. It doesn't even include the tram network (which is, iirc, over 100km long) and suburban railways, right?
 
#72 · (Edited)
Jape said:
Northstar: Congrats for getting the already impressive t-bane system extended! Those new stations are pretty good looking.

Btw. That map is amazing considering Oslo is slightly smaller than Helsinki. It doesn't even include the tram network (which is, iirc, over 100km long) and suburban railways, right?
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Yeah, it is pretty big for Oslo's size. Line 1 could be considered a tramline/lightrail though. And keep in mind that most lines have departures only each 15 minutes. And many of the stations are quite worn down, not beeing renovated since they opened in the 60'ies, although that too is improving with a renovation-program going on.

Here are the tram-network btw, most lines depart each 10'th minute.
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And local trains in the greater Oslo area, or central eastern Norway.(some of those lines extend 100 km from Oslo)
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btw, Oslo sporveier are estimating that there will be 10 million new travellers each year on the metro because of the ring.
 
#75 ·
Totally awesome map and system! Definately up there with Copenhagen and Stockholm!

I love the fact that Oslo both has an extensive metro system and an extensive tram system. Very impressive. Reminds me of Berlin. :)

It seems to me that the T-bane's main purpose is to serve the outskirts/suburbs (not so much downtown, that is), much like the T-bana in Stockholm and S-tog in Copenhagen - and that the trams do the work in the city centre. Is that correct?
 
#76 ·
staff said:
It seems to me that the T-bane's main purpose is to serve the outskirts/suburbs (not so much downtown, that is), much like the T-bana in Stockholm and S-tog in Copenhagen - and that the trams do the work in the city centre. Is that correct?
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T-bana in Stockholm is the main transporter in the innercity actually. And it works very well.
 
#77 ·
staff said:
It seems to me that the T-bane's main purpose is to serve the outskirts/suburbs (not so much downtown, that is), much like the T-bana in Stockholm and S-tog in Copenhagen - and that the trams do the work in the city centre. Is that correct?
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yeah, in general that is the case, but it depends really. The metro is best for travelling between some important parts of downtown/near downtown, like from Grønland to Nationaltheateret, for example, or up to Majorstua. On the part of the metro that runs through downtown, there are 5(or maybe 6 next week?) departures each 15'th minute, and it is very fast compared to the tram. While other places near downtown, like Frogner, Bislett, Grünerløkka, Torshov etc is better covered with tram, or bus.

While most tram-lines are shorter than the metro-lines, it is not the case for all. Line 19 Ljabru goes further south than line 4 Bergkrystallen, and line 13 Jar is pretty long too. Actually it is longer than line 4 Kolsås at the moment, as line 4 is closed from Montebello for upgrading to metro standard.
 
#78 ·
Sideshow_Bob,
What I meant is that the T-bana in Stockholm still has more stations in the suburbs than in the inner city - and the fact that it actually serves the suburbs at all, just like T-bane in Oslo and S-Tog in Copenhagen.

NorthStar77,
Great, thanks for the info. :)
 
#79 · (Edited)
staff said:
Awesome maps, NorthStar77. Is there a map for all rail lines in the Oslo area? If not, you should sit down and make on! :D
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That's so easy to say, but have you ever tried to make a big, well planned map? Ok, you already said you have... I have some 10 projects under way and the number is constantly growing - but so far I have succeed with one map. It's surprisingly hard to find space for the station names in the central core where the system gets denser.
 
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