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(NSB) for their regional train service, and used on the services in Eastern, Central and Northern Norway. Agenda trains were painted red and silver, and the brand name was in use between about 1999 and 2005.

Background

NSB had since 1992 offered the premium

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(ICE) service on the

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, the

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and the route to

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(along the

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and

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. With the delivery of the new multiple units

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and BM 93 NSB chose to give them the common name Agenda at the same time the old units BM 70 that had served on the ICE routes. The idea was to create a unified concept with three distinct products; the green

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was the brand for local trains, the red Agenda for the regional trains and the blue

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for the express trains. NSB chose to paint the BM 92 and BM 69 multiple units in the Agenda color scheme, but has never allocated the brand name on them.

Service

The Agenda brand was used on the following routes: *

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(BM 70) * Oslo S –

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(BM 73b) *

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– Trondheim S (BM 93) *

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