Operations
All track is now standard gauge, with a total of 4,114 kilometres (2,556 mi), of which 2,552 kilometres (1,586 mi) is electrified at 15 kV 16⅔ Hz AC, and 227 kilometres (141 mi) is double track. Gardermobanen, at 64 kilometres (40 mi), is the only high-speed line. The network consists of 706 tunnels, 2,523 bridges and 3,761 level crossings. The railways transported 56,827,000 passengers for 2,956 million passenger kilometers and 24,783,000 tonnes of cargo for 3,414 million tonne kilometers in 2007; the same year there were eight train-related accidents, with two fatalities—both suicides.
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Famous quotes containing the word operations:
“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)