Editing Rauma Line (section)

==Future==
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There have been proposals to reduce or eliminate passenger transport on the line. A report by the [[Institute of Transport Economics]] in 2004 concluded that the low population density, the lack of termination in a city and the nature of being a branch line with correspondence at Dombås made it impossible to attract sufficient ridership to make operations profitable.<ref name="toi32" />

The lobbyist organisation [[Norsk Bane]] has paid for an investigation made by [[Deutsche Bahn]] which proposes to construct a [[high-speed railway]] between Ålesund and Oslo, which would run through Romsdalen. The line would connect to a proposed high-speed line between Oslo and Trondheim at Dombås, but would avoid going through Åndalsnes and instead pass through the village of Bjorli, through the [[Valldalen]] valley, before reaching the village of [[Valldal]] in [[Sunnmøre]]. The branch would be {{convert|193|km}} long, of which {{convert|89|km}} would run in tunnel and {{convert|13|km|0}} be on bridges and viaducts. It is estimated to cost NOK&nbsp;30 billion and give a travel time of 2 hours and 33 minutes from Ålesund to Oslo. Because of 1.25 percent gradients, the line is suitable for freight trains. During daytime, freight trains would operate on the line in {{convert|160|km/h}}, while they could operate slower during the night. The proposal calls for twelve trains per direction per day between Ålesund and Oslo, and six trains per day between Ålesund and Trondheim.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grein |first=Ottmar |date=9 February 2011 |title=High Speed Line Dombås – Ålesund |url=http://norskbane.no/download.aspx?object_id=6E48C3119C1E4CA08AA7A09058B45841.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823094415/http://norskbane.no/download.aspx?object_id=6E48C3119C1E4CA08AA7A09058B45841.pdf |archive-date=23 August 2011 |access-date=13 July 2011 |publisher=[[Norsk Bane]]}}</ref>

The travel time Ålesund–Oslo by bus and train (using the Rauma Line) is (as of 2018) around 7 hours 55 minutes (by car slightly less), and Åndalsnes–Oslo around 5 hours 30 minutes (by car slightly more).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Entur – nasjonal reiseplanlegger |url=https://en-tur.no/}}</ref> Air travel has a leading market share with 606,000 passengers Ålesund–Oslo and 370,000 Molde-Oslo year 2016.<ref name="Eurostat">[http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/transport/data/database Eurostat>Transport>Data>Database] Search the "avia_par_no" etc datasets (accessed Oct 2017)</ref>