The line was built as the third and final by the municipal Kristiania Kommunale Sporvei, opening on 28 August 1900.
The Vippetangen area is an important ferry quay and port that grew up, and both domestic and international ships provided the basis for passengers.
Passenger transport was terminated in August 1964 as part of the plan to abandon the tramway network in Oslo.
[1] From 1918 KSS started operating freight trams transporting grain from the silos at Vippetangen to the mills in Grünerløkka and Sandaker.
There are no specific dates for this expansion that is to become the main transport corridor through the urban renewal project named the Fjord City.