Classic route
VR InterCity
Helsinki → Joensuu · Finland
VR InterCity in pictures
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- Distance
- 448 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 9 min
- Average speed
- 108 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- VR
- Train
- Sr2 · double-deck IC
- Countries
- Finland
- In service since
- 1894
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A double-deck InterCity east along the Karelian line to Joensuu, gateway to Finland’s forested North Karelia.
How this line was checked
- The 165 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 13438376 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 93.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 14 m); the longest stretch away from it is 12.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.7 km from the shape of IC 3
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FI) ↗
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