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A small blue locomotive hauling three wooden passenger cars parked at a wooden platform
The Thamshavn Line became Norway's first electrified when it opened in 1908.
A four-car multiple unit running across a snow-covered plain with mountains in the background
Class 73 train near Dombås on the Dovre Line

The Norwegian railway network consists of 2,552 kilometers (1,586 mi) of electrified railway lines, constituting 62% of the Norwegian National Rail Administration's 4,114 kilometers (2,556 mi) of line.[1] In 2008, electric traction accounted for 90% of the passenger kilometers, 93% of the tonne kilometers and 74% of the energy consumption of all trains running in Norway, with the rest being accounted for by diesel traction.[2]

  1. ^ Norwegian National Rail Administration, 2009a: 4
  2. ^ Norwegian National Rail Administration, 2009b: 12

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