THE BERGENSBANEN: NORWAY'S MOST SCENIC RAILWAY JOURNEY 

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I did this trip in reverse a few years ago but travelled in first class, The free drinks were a bonus. Scenery is spectacular all the way from Bergen to the outskirts of Oslo. The previous day I had made the trip from Bergen to Myrdal and took the train down to Flam. This line is nothing but spectacular with continuous waterfalls and amazing scenery. One day I will return.

August 1995.A stunning ride on the Flamsbana to Myrdal, with stop do take pictures of the Kjosfossen (waterfall). It seemed to me to be in Switzerland (The Rhaetische Bahn from me). Great video, compliments.

I absolutely love your Norwegian videos! I was an exchange student to that beautiful country many years ago, and seeing your images of Oslo makes me smile. I did the train trip between my "home" village of Gran (on the line to Gjovik) and the capital several times during my stay, and the views out the window were gorgeous. If I'm ever back in Norway, I'll definitely do the Bergensbanen trip!

Scandinavian Holiday (October, 2012) Norway was the last stop on my Scandinavian tour which included mini-adventures in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark...and I was looking forward to roller coasting down the mountain from Myrdal to Flam on the coast... then ferry through the magnificent fjords that line the icy waterways. I got to know train and ferry crews along the way and enjoyed talking shop and trading war stories after I told them I was an Amtrak Conductor. They treated me like a king...offering free rides and complimentary upgrades to business and first class. Surprisingly, some Nordic railroaders didn't seem to realize their passenger rail system is far superior to emaciated Amtrak in the USA. But first the railway. The Flam Railway is one of the steepest railroads in the world and the scenery is breathtaking. Flam conductors and engineer gave me a free ride enabling me to take 3 trips up and down the mountains and take tons of extra photos while waiting for boat to depart the small pier next to the Flam train station. The spacious station restaurant offered a tasty selection of Norwegian dishes. I wore my warm Amtrak jacket everywhere and railways workers in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway knew more about Amtrak than the average American who've never been on a real train...or out of the country. Many Scandinavians have traveled to U. S. on their 6-8 week vacation breaks and during liberal annual leave their governments offer them. For the record: American complain about high taxes in Europe but the many many Europeans I've recorded over the years over love their Socialistic form of government: liberal leave and long vacations, universal health care, free education and decent train service. Most Nordic countries have offered Marriage Equality and gay rights for years while Amtrak gay workers - like me - were hiding in the closet for fear of losing jobs and "friends". Of course there are complaints but nothing on the scale I hear here...LIKE RAILROAD WORKERS WITHOUT SICK LEAVE. Europeans can't imagine doctor and medical bills bankrupting families. College students on the train from Copenhagen to Goteborg talked about who paid college expenses, waiting times for medical treatments and how the Swedish government gives families an allowance for each child. I got the same feedback talking to bare naked men in a popular spa in downtown Stockholm. I was a social anthropologist on a mission...looking for butt-naked truth. LOL. How did I get on that soapbox? Back to Norway..

My wife and I did this wonderful trip in 2007. It is a little difficult to decide between this journey and the Rhatische Bahn from Chur to Tirano as to which was the trip of a lifetime.

Amazing trip and hope very soon I am too experience this trip

Bonjour. Merci pour cette vidéo. Magnifiques paysages !!!

I am pretty sure someone else already has commented, but the old railway terminus for Oslo Øst (East) was the yellow building behind the tiger statue at the beginning. Oslo S/Central was opened in 1980 to replace Oslo Vest/West and Oslo Øst/East and link them with a tunnel under the city.

Hello, I’m a new subscriber and just watched your videos on train travel in Norway. My son is living in Oslo now so I look forward to visiting and taking one of these magnificent trips. Thank you for sharing. 👍🏻😎🇨🇦

I just see your video now, because I was in Bergen for 4 days! I did the part of the Bergensbanen to Voss and it is amazing. Surely an amazing country (I agree on the expensiveness though hahah)

What an awesome trip. Not high-speed, but high-viewing-content 😊. And thanks for all the additional facts about the areas passed.

Simply - WOW!

Another excellent report capturing some of the beauty of the journey. You might be interested to know that all the seats are reversible, so the majority face the direction of travel. That explains the table against the wall which could be used if you want a bay of four. Great filming.

Nice video. I live in Bergen , beeing familiar with the geographi of the surrondings. You had a miss in the comment abouth the Sørfjiorden. the one you mentioned is not a branch of Hardangerfjorden, but another fjord named Sørfjorden. Bergensbanen line is not in any part close to Hardangerfjorden. Anyways, thank you for a nice video from my country.

Fantastics landscapes ... thanks for the ride !!! 🇺🇾

We went in July but I love the more snowy views you had in May!

at least in this video, norway doesn't look as consistently breathtakingly beautiful as switzerland. i like the scenery towards the end of the video however. great trip report as usual, @nonstop!

1:15 If you can find ways of cooking your own food you can make it a lot cheaper. You can buy cheap food in grocery stores. You can cook it on a primus stove. And you can set up a tent in most places out in nature in Norway for two nights pr property without asking the owner first. Get familiar with the laws though. No leaving garbage, breaking beaches, being noisy, bothering anyone etc... 8:28 This is the former government owned railway. As you can see the comfort is better then in the Swedish railway and other private offerings replacing them on many lines... 14:04 Considering the speed limits on our roads 95 km/h is actually pretty decent. 20:34 Honestly the Flåm line is a little bit of a tourist trap... Its nice, especially if mixed with a express boat to Bergen... But it's just too touristy... 22:24 This is better. What you described as beautiful scenery in the way up was ugly and dry in my book. Climate change is messing with the climate in Norway and our nature is suffering the consequences. The country used to be green pretty much everywhere. But it's clear that the rain shadow has been told dry for too long there. But on this side of the river it *does* look good.

Bom dia muito lindo trem que viagem linda deve ter sido

Gorgeous trip!

If I remember, didn't you have a channel that had videos about transport fever 2? If it is your channel is really cool! I'm doing a metro in the game

Wow, no rain in Bergen? That's luck! :) As far as i know its the "rainiest" town in Europe ;) Few years ago they had something like 80 rainy days in a row :)

Looks like Re460/LOK2000's are pretty popular I have seen them in India, Switzerland, Norway, Finland and even Hong Kong lol

thank you for the informative review

As a local, I have to correct one thing you wrote in the captions at 22:38 in the video: Although you got the name _Sørfjorden_ right, it's not a branch of Hardangerfjorden, but its own fjord that opens up towards the archipelago North and West of Bergen. With a name like Sørfjorden ("South Fjord"), there are bound to be a few of these in the country, including both the one that branches off from Hardangerfjorden, South towards the town of Odda, and the one North-East of Bergen that the railway passes along, which you filmed here.

Great video!

Clean toilets are most important but I'm glad you give your viewers the option to skip toilet review. Thanks.

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A little correction: This Sørfjorden is not a branch of Hardangerfjorden (further south) at 22:39. That you missed Finse is unforgiveable

When was this filmed?

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Where was the last shot from?

Something is wrong with the title "... Verdens værste jernbane". I.e. in English "The worlds worst railway". Who made that translation?

Which side would you recommend to sit during the ride?

Years ago we had a train holiday in Norway from Oslo, taking in Andalsnes and Trondheim. The weather was exceptionally warm and on one journey near Lillehammer the crew handed out free ice creams to us. The line from Dombas to Andalsnes is spectacular with two 180 degree bends inside tunnels and one waterfall actually fell on the train due to the unusual amount of snow melt.

I am almost affronted that any place could ever be so gorgeous and captivating! Genuinely, this is the definition of a paradise to me! Not the tropics, no cities, just all this gorgeous, quiet beauty, snow, trees, rivers... Everything! I love it. DEFINITELY a must do bucket list item for sure! Thank you for taking us along this journey!

What a lovely journey that must have been!🌄🚅

No, it's not the higher mainline in Europe, but only in northern Europe: Brenner railway reach, for example, the altitude of 1371 m at Brenner pass.

I took that compartment seating from Geilo to Oslo. It was super nice and chill. I ate a pizza and the feeling of you’re own room was great. We were 4 traveling so the price was a bit on the expensive side.

You have no idea how bad I wanna ride this train! And then over to Finland and spend some time up in lapland! Love Scandinavia and Finland is my all time fave country

Awesome capture!👍😉

I follow you since a year ago, your trips are amazing, I’m not sure but in four or five year, if I still alive (about 65 years) I will dedicate my retired time to travel and ride trains like you all around the world, send my best wishes to you, thanks to share this beautiful videos!!!

Absolutely stunning! I interrailed around Scandinavia for three weeks between July and August and saved a lot of footage for my coming travel reports. Bergensbanen and Flåmsbana could not be missing. Such an amazing trip, in spite of the very variable weather. It would be hard to me to stay within the thirty minutes. Since I can speak some Norwegian, I'd like to give you a hint: "banen" (m) or "bana" (f) is determinate form (indeterminate is "bane"), you don't need the article. This is common to all Scandinavian languages.

Watch some of RailCowGirls video's. She is a driver on the route and you get a drivers eye view of the route in real time. Fabulous!

Great trip and beautiful landscape,. Please in what time of the year you did it ? Thanks a lot from Buenos Aires, Argentina 🧑‍🦰🌷🌿

I rode this train in July. It was a snow blizzard at the highest point. I liked Bergen more than Oslo.

Not the highest main line in Europe. France has one at well over 1,500 metres in the Pyrenees. The service on the line to Bergen is being reduced from 6 train pairs to 4 with a fifth but only on 2 days a week. Not good news. In fact I get the impression that railways in Norway have more than their fair share of problems. Great video, though.

IDK, Max, if I’d be so concerned about Wi-Fi speed nor speed of the train when there’s such beautiful views outside the window.😉👍🏻. For lunch, I would have chosen the wrap, yogurt with raspberry sauce and muesli. 😋. I’ve done the “Norway in a Nutshell” tour but not this entire ride. Guess I must plan it for next summer. Is it me or did parts of the journey sound loud in the carriage or were you filming from the vestibule?

Hi, how ya doing, mate I have been busy last few weeks due to which I wasn’t able to watch last few videos, I will be watching it soon and loved this amazing scenic journey and great video as always. 😊

All the VY trains have similar seats and cabin configurations! In general they standards are pretty high!

I am Norwegian and I think Bergensbanen is the most beatiful and spectacular railway journey you can take in Norway when the weather is like in this movie. The landscape is so beautiful.🥰😍😊😇😉😊

Great video !!

It's cool to see what my best friend from England is going to experience with his trip on Bergensbanen. I don't really agree on the sausage and mash for 79NOK is a good deal, but each to their own. I've never taken the train to Bergen, only a hired bus on a school trip, but I've taken a sleeper train to Trondheim a few times when I was a child, but it was night, so the visual aspect was of course lost. I don't really do long trips by train, but I want to, the longest I usually do is Drammen - Skien to visit my father. Did one long travel from Oslo to Stockholm and back, and it was alright. Sadly it was in the evening during december, so I lost some of the visual aspect as well. I do really enjoy watching travel videos, it's like my sad hobby, but I hope one day i get to actually travel more myself.

Bergensbanen is nice but I feel people really overlook the Dovre line. In Winter especially cruising through the mountain plateau is really something

Great video but where were the tauntauns and AT-ATs?

Norway certainly has beautiful scenery, but I've yet to see anything to beat Switzerland. I've been to Myrdal (via Fläm) and it was a wonderful journey.

You just missed the launch of a "real" first class in norway, with a 2 + 1 seating, included meal and 45 degree seats.

2:00 there were 2 stations in Oslo before - west and east with no throught connection for passager trains - Oslo S (central station) is a station buided so Vestbanen and Østbanen would be connected througt it. Østbanehallen you could see at 1:15 was old øst (east) station hall (now a small shopping mall), west station hall is where part of Nationalmuseum is now (opened in 2022). 13:44 most of those trains (long distance ones in norway has this problem because of terrain and remote areas - but it's getting better). and yeah fastest part of this trip was in the start between oslo and drammen. Norwegian routes are really beautiful but doesn't have any perfection at all - like Oslo S this week had had trouble all the time so trains were delayed mostly for the last 3-4 days. And noone is surprised at all. And high speed line - it's a totally joke

wow, awesome landscape views here !! great video

Thanks for your beautiful video. Me and my wife ( from California ) are traveling for 2 weeks with Sky Princess cruise ship from London to all of coast lines of Norway … what a beautiful country !!! We are truly enjoying !!! We plan to come back next year but traveling with train rail whole Norway … your video is very helpful , thanks again

It's a testament to just how far north Norway is that the treeline is merely at 1000+m. In the Alps or Rockies, the treeline is much closer to, or even higher than, 3000m.

You can actually go on a night train around the summer solstice. Even though there is no midnight sun this far south, it is really quite bright outside due to the bright twilight.

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Fantastic journey, thanks for the video, hope to do this soon, when exactly did your journey take place ?

beautiful trip, plus train pulled by stylish locomotive of Swiss design origin (;-)

Thank you for sharing such a spectacular trip! Definitely on my bucket list now.

All my condolences for the British people mourning the loss of HM Queen Elizabeth II

What a great trip. The scenery looks breathtaking and awesome. Next how about trying Ferry trip around Fjord in Norway.

This a very good country in Norway world. 🇳🇴👌👌🇧🇩

So beautiful. Travelling on the train in Norway and exploding the wilderness and the backdrop is just incredible.

Wonderful scenery! Comfy seats. I would not want high speed or night travel on this route. Thanks Max😀💚

Cool! An electric locomotive! Really want to have a go of one of those.

What an awesome journey! Thanks for sharing it with us!

Me and my family did this train ride , but in reverse. It sure is spectacular. Would love to do a trip where I get of at Myrdal and bike my way to Flåm one day.

The views on this train trip remind me of places here in Canada and the United States, but much shorter and less expensive (powered by electricity, no less) than with VIA or Amtrak, and absolutely as stunning as anything in either North American nation.

Your photography is picture perfect. Definition and sharpness are outstanding,

Did this in January. Needless to say; it was even more snowy back then.

Such contrasting scenery - nice. Wooden cutlery in the dining car though 🤔

I think the four most beatiful railway lines in Norway are Oslo-Bergen, Myrdal-Flåm, Dombås-Åndalsnes and Narvik-Riksgränsen(-Abisko-Kiruna). I travelled all of them again this Summer!

I've done the Nordlandsbanen many times, virtually. It's a beautiful trip, especially through the area across the Arctic Circle.

8:46 this seems to be working when you rotate one row of the seats to face each other (note the paddles down below the seats next to the aisles) This is quite common here in Taiwan on long distance trains in 2-2 layout or high speed rail, or in Japan on Shinkansen bullet trains, or in China (also on high speed rail trains) so you can simply rotate the seats to sit face to face if you are traveling in a group (though by doing so in Asia here there are no large tray tables and usually the seat reclines are limited to mostly 0 when you choose to sit facing to each other). (So that's most likely the reason you have seen all the seats are facing forward as the airline style seats)

Video title: "...MEST SCANISKE JERNBANEREISE...." What is SCANISKE....???? Bergensbanen is the most scenic rail route only if you haven't tried other rail routes in Norway ....or maybe if you like to see the inside of tunnels.....

Like? LOVE!!!! YOU and Norway are superb. We got on the wrong train in Oslo and ended up in Lillehammer. I wanted to go to Hammerfest, but realized that the cold would be De Trop!! We loved the trams, pale cream colour, and got off at a kiosk to buy RegensSchjocolade chocolate bars. Queen's chocolate. Sorry about spelling. This was long long ago. I will never forget God Jul and Tak! Thanks again millefois.

The Bergen Railway and Flåmsbana (Flåm Line) are among the most scienic routes in the world. But an often missed route is the Rauma Railway. While the Flåm Line is 20km long, almost 6km of that is tunnels, the views are spectacular, but much is hidden. On the Rauma Railway, you start out at Dombås Station, at an elevation of 659m, and slowly drop down through the nothern part of the Gudbrandsdal Valley, towards Bjorli at 574m. After Bjorli the terrain changes as the valley floor suddenly drops steeply. The line has to loop back on itself three times to get down the hill. and it is this part that offer the most spectacular views. First you see the other side of the valley, and the line two levels down, then you loop through an almost 180 turn in a tunnel, before entering a part of the line simply know as "The View" where you can see far down the valley and the massive Trollveggen in the Romsdal Valley. The incline on this part of the line is 2.5%. The line continues down, crossing the valley at Kylling Bridge. As you are going over the bridge the line loops back 180 degrees and you are entering the lower parts of the Roms Valley. The line runs directly below Trollveggen and the views from Bjorli, to the end of the line at Åndalsnes are simply breathtaking. The line is 114km and a one way journey takes about 1hour and 25 minutes, and 2,3km are spent inside tunnels. As a locomotive engineer in Norway, that line is my absolute favourite, out of all the lines i have driven on, so far. Map of the three level part: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Tunnelene_ved_Verma.jpg

Are there all-stops commuter trains between Oslo and Honefoss?

The Sørfjorden on this railway line is NOT a part of Hardangerfjorden. It is another fjord. An entirely different fjord 50 km north of Hardangerfjorden.

I hate toilet reviews!

what a scenic journey...what time of the year was this filmed?

Thanks a lot for this video. Amazing and unbelievable views. ❤

What time of year did you travel? Summer?

Norway is beautifull, but not more Zwitzerland or Oestreich! They are wonderfull! But...

Oslo Central Station is the same age as me👀😂🥴

Thank you for this video! My husband and I are heading to Norway in 4 months and we are excited! Does it matter what side of the train you sit on, while heading to Bergen? I've heard the left side is more scenic than the right side. It looks like you sat on the right and still had great views. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you.❤

What time of the year was this?

Great video 😀txs 👍👋 watching form god's own country ❤️🙏

All thumbs up !!!

Perfect video of e epic ride.