Sinsen is a

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on the Ring Line of the

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. It is located at

Sinsen Sinsen is a mixed residential and commercial area in Grünerløkka borough of Oslo, Norway. The westernmost part of Sinsen is part of the borough Nordre Aker. The Sinsen Interchange, located on the border between the boroughs of Nordre Aker, Gr ...

in the

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borough of

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. Next to the station is the

tram station A tram stop, tram station, streetcar stop, or light rail station is a place designated for a tram, streetcar, or light rail vehicle to stop so passengers can board or alight it. Generally, tram stops share most characteristics of bus stops, ...

Sinsenkrysset, that has been part of the

Sinsen Line The Sinsen Line ( no, Sinsenlinjen) is part of the Oslo Tramway on the east side of the city. Most of the line is served by line 17, although the northernmost tip (Grefsen–Torshov) is served by line 18 which otherwise runs on the Grünerløkka� ...

of the

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since 1939. The station opened on 20 August 2006, as part of the first section of the Ring Line. The station is served by line 4 and 5 of the metro, as well as several local bus services. Sinsen is a mixed residential and commercial area.

History

Storo opened as a tram station as part of the extension of the Sinsen Line to

Grefsen thumbnail, 250px, Grefsen Church Grefsen is a neighbourhood in the city of Oslo, Norway. Grefsen was a part of the municipality of Aker before the Second World War, later incorporated into Oslo. Together with Kjelsås, Grefsen then formed the ...

in 1939. The tram station was built adjacent to the

Sinsen Interchange The Sinsen Interchange ( no, Sinsenkrysset) is a heavily trafficked, multilevel road junction in Oslo, Norway. It connects the highways Norwegian National Road 150 and Norwegian National Road 4 ( Trondheimsveien). The junction has existed since the ...

, between Ring 3 and National Road 4. In 1992, the Sinsen Line was moved redirected to go outside the interchange. The process of establishing a Ring Line to serve the northern parts of Oslo started in the late 1980s. The plans were passed by the city council in 1997, and financing was secured in 2000 through

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. Construction started in June 2000, and the first section to

Nydalen Nydalen is a neighbourhood in the Nordre Aker borough in northern Oslo, Norway. History In the late 19th century, the banks of the Akerselva River were dotted with various industrial buildings, Nydalen included. However, a transformation soon ...

and

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opened on 20 August 2003. The ring was completed and Sinsen opened on 20 August 2006. The station is owned by

Sporveien Sporveien Oslo AS is a municipally owned public transport operator in Oslo, Norway. It operates the trackage and maintains the stock of the Oslo Metro and Oslo Tramway, as well as owning eight operating subsidiaries. In 2005, its 2,365 emplo ...

Facilities

The rapid transit station was designed by architects

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, and is visually and structurally very similar to

. It features a

center platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

, a roof, and incorporates wood, steel and concrete as construction materials. To the south, the station is located just outside the tunnel that connects the Ring Line to the

Grorud Line The Grorud Line ( no, Grorudbanen) is a line on the Oslo Metro between Tøyen and Vestli in Oslo, Norway. Built as a mix of underground, at ground level and as an elevated line, it runs through the northern part of Groruddalen, serving such ...

. To the north, the line runs parallel to the mainline

Gjøvik Line The Gjøvik Line ( no, Gjøvikbanen) is a Norwegian railway line between Oslo and Gjøvik. It was originally named the North Line (''Nordbanen'') and ran between Grefsen and Røykenvik. The line was completed to Gjøvik in 1902. The Gjøvik ...

. Sinsen is located just beside the Sinsen Interchange, in a mixed residential and commercial area.

Service

Line 4 and 5 of the Oslo Metro operate to Sinsen, with a 15-minute

headway Headway is the distance or duration between vehicles in a transit system measured in space or time. The ''minimum headway'' is the shortest such distance or time achievable by a system without a reduction in the speed of vehicles. The precise defi ...

. The line operate clockwise through the eastern part of town into the

Common Tunnel The Common Tunnel ( no, Fellestunnelen), sometimes called the Common Line (), is a long tunnel of the Oslo Metro which runs through the city center of Oslo, Norway. The name derives from the fact that all five lines of the metro use the tunnel, ...

towards

Vestli Vestli is a subway station on Grorud Line of the Oslo Metro. It is the last station on the line and comes after Stovner. The station is located in the Stovner Stovner is a borough located to the far north east of the city of Oslo, Norway. Histo ...

(4),

Sognsvann Sognsvann (or ''Sognsvannet'') is a 3.3 km circumference lake just north of Oslo, Norway. Lying just within the greenbelt around Oslo, the lake is a popular recreational area, used as a camping, picnicking and bathing destination for the re ...

(5), while it operates counterclockwise via the western part into the

towards Bergkrystallen (4) and

(5). Travel time from Sinsen to

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is 9 minutes clockwise and 16 minutes counterclockwise. The service is operated by Oslo T-banedrift on contract with

Ruter Ruter AS is the public transport authority for Oslo and Akershus counties in Norway. Formally a limited company – 60% of its shares are owned by the Oslo county municipality and 40% by that of Akershus – it is responsible for the administrat ...

. The tram station is served by line 17 of the Oslo Tramway. It operates on a ten-minute headway to the city center. Travel time to

Jernbanetorget Jernbanetorget is both a rapid transit station on the Oslo Metro and a tram stop of the Oslo Tramway. The metro station is in the Common Tunnel used by all lines under the city centre. It is located between Stortinget to the west and Grønland ...

is 13 minutes. Northwards, the line continues to the final station,

. While the tram and rapid transit stations are within walking distance of each other, they are not marked as transfer stations on the schedules. The trams are operated by

Oslo Sporvognsdrift Sporveien Trikken AS, formerly Oslo Sporvognsdrift AS and Oslotrikken AS, is the company that operates the Oslo Tramway in Oslo, Norway. Sporveien Trikken is owned by Sporveien, which is again owned by the city council and has an operating contrac ...

on contract with Ruter. The station serves several bus routes. Lines 23 and 24 along Ring 3 from

Lysaker Lysaker is an area in Bærum Municipality, Viken (county), Viken County, Norway. Lysaker is the easternmost part of Bærum and borders Oslo city proper, proper. Lysaker was initially a farming community, later becoming a residential area. Today ...

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, and Brynseng to

Fornebu Fornebu (local form ''Fornebo'') is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of Bærum in Norway, bordering western parts of Oslo. Oslo Airport, Fornebu (FBU) served as the main airport for Oslo and the country since before World War II an ...

stop at Sinsen. Line 31 runs via Sinsen from

Grorud Grorud is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway. The borough contains the Ammerud, Grorud, Kalbakken, Rødtvet, Nordtvet and Romsås areas. To the north of the borough is the forest of Lillomarka. The borough is the smallest in Oslo, with fe ...

Tonsenhagen Tonsenhagen is a neighborhood in the borough of Bjerke in northeast Oslo, Norway. Built in the 1950s, it was one of the early new suburbs within Oslo. The neighborhood is situated on a hillside overlooking Oslo and the Grorud Valley, surround ...

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, as does line 33 from Ellingsrudåsen to

Filipstad Filipstad is a locality and the seat of Filipstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden, with 10,644 inhabitants in 2019. Filipstad was granted city privileges in 1611 by Charles IX of Sweden, who named it after his son Duke Carl Philip (1601&n ...

, and line 58 from

Tveita Tveita is a neighborhood in the borough of Alna in Oslo, Norway. The area was built up between 1963 and 1967. It is served by the station Tveita on the Oslo Metro The Oslo Metro ( no, Oslo T-bane or or simply ) is the rapid transit system of ...

References

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