Jærbanen

The Jærbanen railway runs between the cities of Stavanger and Egersund, forming the first part of the Sørlandsbanen railway.

Jærbanen was opened in 1878 as a narrow gauge (1067 mm), single tracked railway. In 1944 it was converted to standard gauge (1435 mm), and in 1956 the line was electrified.

Because Jærbanen's capacity is stretched to the limit, construction of double track from Stavanger to Ganddal is scheduled to start in 2005.

The local train services stops at these stations (distance from Stavanger in parenthesis):

• Stavanger (0 km)
• Hillevåg (1.94 km)
• Mariero (4 km)
• Sandnes stasjon (14.78 km)
• Sandnes holdeplass (15.36 km)
• Ganddal (18.49 km)
• Øksnevadporten (22.42 km)
• Klepp (24.84 km)
• Bryne (29.58 km)
• Nærbø (37.68 km)
• Varhaug (43.11 km)
• Vigrestad (49.22 km)
• Brusand (54.17 km)
• Ogna (58.41 km)
• Sirevåg (60.36 km)
• Hellvik (66.79 km)
• Egersund (74.71 km)

The remote train services (Stavanger-Kristiansand and Stavanger-Oslo) stops at Bryne and Egersund.

Jærbanen has one branch line, Ålgårdbanen, which runs from Ganddal to Ålgård. However, only the first three kilometres of Ålgårdbanen is currently in use.