NSB Biltrafikk
 Historical NSB buses at Vikersund Station. | |
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| Aksjeselskap (since 1996) | |
| Industry | Public transport |
| Fate | Demerger |
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| Founded | Selbu, Norway (9 November 1925) |
| Defunct | 9 February 2000 |
| Headquarters | Oslo, Norway |
Area served | Norway |
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NSB Biltrafikk was the former road transport division of the Norwegian State Railways from the first bus routes in 1925, as a subsidiary of NSB BA from 1 December 1996, until it was divided into bus operator Nettbuss and truck operator Nettlast on 10 February 2000.
History
The Norwegian Storting (parliament) Standing Committee on Railways' recommendation of 10 December 1921 on "the revision of principles for railway construction" stated that in cases where a new railway would be expensive or difficult to build, or where the traffic would be too small to give any good income, one should always consider the possibility of starting an automobile route instead.[1] On the basis of this it was decided that the State Railways would start some test routes to gain knowledge on this form of transportation.[2] The first three test routes were started in late 1925 with the very first being the "Selbu route" between Selbu and Hell Station on 9 November, then the "Karmøy route" between Skudeneshavn and Haugesund on 21 November and the "Lågendal route" between Skollenborg and Larvik on 19 December.[3]
The test routes were started as a separate division of the State Railways, but other routes being started in the following years became part of the local railway district, and as the years went by, the test routes also became part of their local railway district. But on 1 September 1988, the bus and truck routes became formally part of its own business division known as NSB Biltrafikk.[4] At the same time as the demerger of the State Railways on 1 December 1996, NSB Biltrafikk became its own subsidiary under the new NSB BA.[5]
On 10 February 2000, NSB Biltrafikk was divided into Nettbuss for bus transport and Nettlast for haulage operations.[6] Nettlast was sold off to Posten Norge on 15 November the same year.[7]
References
- ↑ "St. prp. nr. 117 (1922): Om anlegg av nye jernbaner" [About construction of new railways] (in Norwegian). Norwegian Ministry of Labour. 16 June 1922. p. 93.
- ↑ "St. prp. nr. 103 (1923): Om igangsettelse av forsøk med statsdrevne automobilruter" [About the commencement of trials with state-run automobile routes] (in Norwegian). Norwegian Ministry of Labour. 31 August 1923.
- ↑ "St. prp. nr. 69 (1928): Om fortsettelse av driften ved de av staten forsøksvis igangsatte automobilruter, Karmøyruten, Lågendalsruten og Selburuten" [About continuation of operations of those by the state tentatively initiated automobile routes, Karmøyruten, Lågendalsruten and Selburuten] (in Norwegian). Norwegian Ministry of Labour. 30 March 1928.
- ↑ "Årsrapport for Norges Statsbaner 1988" [Annual Report 1988] (in Norwegian). Norges Statsbaner. 29 March 1989. p. 22.
- ↑ "Årsrapport 1996" [Annual Report 1996] (in Norwegian). NSB BA. 23 May 1997. pp. 58–59.
- ↑ "NSB Biltrafikk skifter profil" [NSB Biltrafikk changes profile] (in Norwegian). NSB BA. 9 February 2000. Archived from the original on 8 April 2000.
- ↑ "NSB selger – Posten kjøper" [NSB sells – Posten buys] (in Norwegian). Stavanger Aftenblad. 15 November 2000. Retrieved 31 October 2016.