Classic route
VR InterCity
Helsinki → Kuopio · Finland
- Distance
- 455 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 8 min
- Average speed
- 110 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- VR
- Train
- InterCity2 double-deck
- Countries
- Finland
- In service since
- 1889
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Savo line threads through Finland’s lake district to Kuopio, water rarely out of sight; InterCitys continue north to Iisalmi and Kajaani.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1849328 — 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 7 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of IC 63
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FI) ↗
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