https://yle.fi/a/74-20220038
“Starting this summer, railway afficionados will be able to make a record-long
train journey within the EU.
And for those seeking the old-time romance of the rails, the key to the new
route is a evocatively restored station in Haparanda, Sweden, dating back to
1919.
When a long-awaited rail link opens between northern Finland and Sweden, it
will be possible to travel some 5,000km by train from Portugal's Algarve to
Kolari in Lapland – Finland's northernmost station.
For a change of scenery, you could train it from Helsinki to Stockholm in just
over 24 hours – compared to roughly 18 hours by passenger ferry. Or travel
overland to Narvik on Norway's wild northern coast.
"The grand opening of this route will hopefully be just before Midsummer in
late June," Sampo Kangastalo, development director of the northern Finnish city
of Tornio, tells
Yle News.”
Via Christoph S.
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