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Here's a nice article by Raidepuole (hopefully Google Translate works) https://raidepuolue-fi.translate.goog/uutiset//hallitus-mynsi-rahoituksen-oulu-liminka-kaksoisraiteelle-ja-haaparannan-junaliikenteelle?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Liminka-Oulu double tracking...

I would say an Sm4 or Sm2 is likely. The new Sm7's are starting to arrive and be commissioned - not 100% sure when these will actually be in traffic, but they will free up the Sm4s on the longer distance commuter routes. Or, an extension to an IC service. Dm12s are doubtful, especially given...

Been commuting between Helsinki and Oulu with Finnair, and the same every week for January through to March next year.. mix of A321s and ATR72s with an occasional E190 thown in. Finnair's new idea to get more passengers is to increase charges for seating, baggage, boarding etc..."to complete...

That's some flood, but IIRC "Dover Junction" was taken out of use in 1994 when Dover Marine closed?

They were having a competition with Brandenburg Airport. I even remember flying out of Tegel's new terminal with Brandenburg branded furniture....the new terminal they build *after* they long decided to close the airport, just to handle the traffic that Brandenburg should have taken...

No one *wants* to go to Turku :-) But the three classes...basically the Ekstra was a quiet coach, which was a problem if you wanted comfort *and* be allowed to speak. Also the InterCity trains offer 3 levels of service: standards, ekstra and then the upstairs part of the restaurant car, which...

What if....the TGV was a steam train? I assume the caternary is there for redundancy purposes

Thanks. An interesting read. I mean, if you come up with a way of solving a problem that is novel, then patenting it is a good idea - IP can be leveraged, sold, licensed etc. I guess the latter is where the value for VR is.

First thing that came to my mind was "local politician...." In a similar vein,I was wondering what the worst looking station and service might be...it suggests that football supporter might have something to do with this. The buffet car seems to have suffered and won't post the picture of the...

3 trains in each direction per day. The border points were Kauklahti station - now part of the Helsinki commuter lines - and Tähtelä, a small station which closed to passengers in 1993. My father-in-law travelled through the "tunnel" quite a few times. I also have relatives whose homes were...

You mean like the longitudinal seating Nigeria railways has introduced on their HSTs ?

There is some freight, about 10 trains per day to/from Vainikala. There seems to be about 2-4 trains crossing the border at Vaalimaa per day. https://juliadata.fi/timetables?s=VNA&d=24.10.2025 ( specifically look for trains to/from BSL - Buslovskaja ) Imatrankoski-raja, Niirala and...

There's nothing in Vainikkala, and even less reason to travel beyond there; Lappenranta is the nearest large town with service. Passenger traffic on the line to Vainikkala stopped in 1977 (Pulsa and Simola were the "largest" stations on that line).Luumäki (Taavetti) is an unusual closure (maybe...

The GSM-R implementation suffered from a lot of technical problems - mainly due to interference from the adjacent bands. TETRA on the other hand has a lot of nice features for reliable communication, but it is getting old and VIRVE phones aren't exactly cheap either. Much easier to put all that...

Because VR are not really a train R&D company - yes, they might have had some designs and bought some IP, but that does not equate to being able to build such systems and implement them. They might have had ideas on how to make the system more reliable on the Sm3s and the patent might have been...

Would Vainikkala station in Finland have counted. You couldn't alight from nor board the train there, but it was a scheduled stop. Technically you therefore couldn't travel to anywhere in Finland from there, and I suppose Russia too. I think those that did alight there did get onwards travel -...

Complicated, unconfortable and unneeded. The Pendolinos (with tilting) were introduced for Helsinki-Turku as S220 services in the late 90s. Initially there were a lot of problems, such as the tilting mechanism not particularly liking Finnish winters etc. VR also introduced the double decker...

I just wrote "Draw me a tram-train in the Welsh Valleys" ... I guess it has a stereotypical idea of what the south Wales valleys look like; pretty good, apart from the coal-mine...unless it is a museum. The "flexible" coaches on that tram are impressive. As for the two small DMUs, I forget...

According to VR's press release on 14 Dec 2023: RZD failed to meet its financial obligations regarding Karelian Trains Oy, and in June 2023 faced bankruptcy. To avoid this, VR redeemed the loans of Karelian Trains Oy and obtained the "Right of Pledge" as security. On the 14th Dec 2023 the...

I bring you the future (and past) of branch line traffic, and also Gemini's proposed capacity enhancements to the TfW South Wales Metro.