About Tinn Billag

Tinn Billag is a company who is rich in tradition. Our company was founded as far back as in 1936. Today we have a modern rolling stock. We are also engaged in other businesses as for example transportation of goods. Tinn Billag provide all the local transportation inside Tinn municipality including school buses.
The administration building for Tinn Billag is situated at the bus station in the senter of Rjukan.

Tinn Billag and Rjukanekspressen are a part of the company NOR-WAY Bussekspress, which is a chain of Norwegian bus companies. It runs about 50 national bus services and covers a total of more than 20 000 kilometres. 4 million passengers travelled with NOR-WAY Bussekspress in the year 2002. 


                                                               Photo: Bjoern Iversen
                                       
History

From old Tinn municipality didn’t have any roads. It was steep mountains on all sides. The only way out was the dangerous searoute over Lake Tinnsjø or with horse and carriage over the mountains.
As the roads became better over the years, so grew also the need for public transportation of people and goods. This became more important as the new city Rjukan grew larger as a result of the industrialisation.
Creative people with a lot of courage started therefore up public transportation. The companies that was founded in this period was in 1936 merged into one company, Tinn Billag AS.