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NSB Class 64
🇳🇴 Norway ·built by Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri· from 1934· Norwegian State Railways' class of electric multiple units
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Type 64 at Granvin: Anders Beer Wilse· Public domain
what is it?
NSB Class 64 (Norwegian: NSB type 64) is a class of three electric multiple units built by Strømmens Værksted for the Norwegian State Railways. Delivered in 1935, they were built for the opening of the Hardanger Line and served there until 1985, when the line closed and the trains were retired. They also periodically served on the Flåm Line.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 92 years ago, in 1934.
- 464 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 16.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 51 years (1934–1985).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1934
- in service from
- 1934
- retired
- 1985
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- builders
- Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri, Strømmens Værksted
- operators
- Norges Statsbaner
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 464 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Catenary
- length
- 16.3 m
- capacity
- 38 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1213748, Wikipedia: NSB Class 64 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.