About us
Who is behind oslotbane.com, how we check what we publish, and what we found wrong on our own pages.
An independent guide to the T-bane
We are a small independent group: some of us know Oslo and ride the T-bane, others build websites and tools. oslotbane.com collects the practical information in one place — a page per station, a page per line, the map, the timetable, tickets, a route planner and guides to the places visitors head for. The site is free, asks for no sign-up and runs in Norwegian and English.
We are not Ruter or Sporveien. We sell no tickets and cannot help with refunds or lost property.
Where the data comes from
Ruter’s open GTFS feed
The station list, which lines call where, and the live line-status panel. The feed is also what told us the network has 101 stations, not the 81 this site used to claim.
no.wikipedia station records
Opening date (99/101), architect (66/101), elevation above sea level (79/101) and distance from Stortinget (94/101). Every station page links to its source.
Nothing without a source
Where a value cannot be evidenced the row is not there.
Three things we found wrong on our own pages
This section exists because we would rather show the corrections than pretend they were never needed. In August 2026 we rebuilt the station pages against the sources above.
Every station claimed a lift, park-and-ride and free Wi-Fi
The same “Facilities” list appeared word for word on all 81 station pages in each language, promising a lift and ramp, park-and-ride, bicycle racks and free Wi-Fi everywhere. Ruter publishes no accessibility data for the T-bane at all — in its own GTFS feed the wheelchair field is empty for all 101 stations. The list is gone; each page now shows what is actually documented, and we point you at the Ruter app for lift status.
Two of the stations are closed
Volvat and Sørbyhaugen had ordinary station pages as though trains still called there. They were shut when the Røa and Østerås lines were rebuilt to metro standard in the 1990s — Volvat is one of the two stations in Oslo usually described as genuine ghost stations. Both pages now carry a closure notice and are marked noindex.
22 stations were missing entirely
The home page and the map page said “81 stations”. That was the number of pages we had, not the size of the network: Ruter’s feed lists 101. Twenty-two stations had no page at all — among them Lambertseter, Oppsal, Bøler, Løren and Montebello. They now exist in both languages, with their opening date, architect, elevation and distance from Stortinget, and they are in the menus and in every line listing. The count is corrected too.
Corrections
We get things wrong and the network changes. Write to [email protected] with the page link and we will check it against Ruter or the station record and fix it.
How the site is funded
The site is free to read. Hosting and development are paid for by advertising. Advertising does not influence the content: we receive nothing from Ruter, Sporveien or any ticket seller, we place no paid links in the text and we sell no reader data.
Frequently asked questions
Who is behind this site
This site is run by the team at GoRandom, a small group based in the Basque Country in Spain who do two things that go together better than they sound: travel, and build websites.
We were in Oslo in April 2025, and the city guide on gorandom.es came out of that trip. We liked it enough to want to go back, and after enough hours spent staring at network maps and comparing travel passes this turned up: a site about nothing except how you actually get around here.
The other half of what we know how to do is web development, and this site is the excuse to put the two together. We do not leave it sitting there: every fare and every timetable carries its source and the date we checked it, and they get revised when the operator changes something. The last thorough revision was in August 2026: we flagged two stations that do not exist and added the 22 that were missing altogether.
He decides what goes up, checks the data before it does, and answers the email. If you find a fare that has expired or a timetable that no longer holds, there is a specific person to write to.