Classic route
Joensuu–Nurmes railway
Joensuu → Nurmes · Finland
- Distance
- 160 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 1 min
- Average speed
- 79 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Train
- Dm12 railbus
- Countries
- Finland
- In service since
- 1911
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Dm12 railbuses up the shore of Lake Pielinen: the rails carry on to Kontiomäki, but passenger trains have stopped at Nurmes since 1993.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1768901 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 761 (Zug-Nr. 761)
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
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