Service
The rapid transit station is served by lines 4, 5 and 6 of the Oslo Metro. Line 5 has eight services per hour, while the other two operate four times per hour. All have reduced services during late evenings and parts of the weekends. Line 5 runs the entire section of the Grorud Line, while lines 4 and 6 both only run from Tøyen to Carl Berners plass, and then run along the Ring Line. Line 6 only runs towards the city center, while Line 4 only runs from the city center. Operations of the line is done by Oslo T-banedrift on contract with Ruter, the public transport authority in Oslo and Akershus. The infrastructure itself is owned by Kollektivtransportproduksjon, a municipal company. Service is provided using MX3000 three- and six-car trains. The line has 40,000 daily passengers, making it the busiest branch of the metro. Travel time along the line, from Tøyen to Vestli, is 23 minutes. Travel time from Vestli to Stortinget in the city center is 27 minutes. Transfer to Ruter buses are available at Tøyen, Carl Berners plass, Hasle, Økern, Linderud, Ammerud, Grorud and Stovner. Transfer to the Sinsen Line of the Oslo Tramway is available at Carl Berners plass.
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