Classic route
Riihimäki–Lahti railway
Riihimäki → Lahti · Finland
Riihimäki–Lahti railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 58 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 58 min
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- VR
- Train
- VR regional
- Countries
- Finland
- In service since
- 1869
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Opened in 1869 as the first stretch of the Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg railway, and still the connection from the Helsinki main line east to Lahti.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7435092 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: VR — 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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