Lieråsen Tunnel

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Coordinates: 59°48′N 010°22′E / 59.800°N 10.367°E / 59.800; 10.367

Lieråsen Tunnel
Overview

The tunnel entrance seen from Lier
Line	Drammen Line
Location	Asker and Lier
System	Norwegian Railways
Start	Asker
End	Lier
Operation
Opened	1973
Owner	Norwegian National Rail Administration
Operator	Norwegian State Railways CargoNet Airport Express Train
Technical
Line length	10,723 m (6.663 mi)
No. of tracks	2
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8¹⁄₂ in)
Electrified	15 kV 16⅔ Hz AC
Operating speed	160 km/h (99 mph)

Lieråsen Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the Drammen Line between Asker Station and Lier Station in Norway. The 10,723 m long tunnel was opened in 1973 and was the longest railway tunnel in the country until the Romerike Tunnel was opened in 1999.

After the tunnel was opened, the railway line between Asker and Spikkestad Station was kept for commuter trains, though the traffic between Spikkestad and Drammen Station was terminated.^[1]

References

↑ Liertunnelen (Caplex)

v t e Drammen Line

Stations	Drammen Brakerøya Lier Asker Høn Vakås Hvalstad Billingstad Slependen Sandvika Blommenholm Høvik Stabekk Lysaker Skøyen Nationaltheatret Oslo S

Closed stations	Jong Ramstad Strand Myra Bestun Skarpsno Oslo V

Unused stations	Elisenberg

Branch lines	Lier Spikkestad Asker Skøyen–Filipstad

Tunnels	Lieråsen Oslo

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