Heritage route
Porvoo Museum Railway
Helsinki → Porvoo · Finland
- Distance
- 62 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 35 km/h
- Top speed
- 95 km/h
- Operator
- Porvoon Museorautatie
- Train
- Dm7 “Lättähattu” railcars
- Countries
- Finland
- In service since
- 1874
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Summer museum trains out of Helsinki: a 1950s Dm7 “flat-hat” railbus leaves the main line at Kerava for the 1874 branch to Porvoo’s wooden old town.
How this line was checked
- The 30 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1849328 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 87.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 17 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Porvoon Museorautatie — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FI) ↗
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