Classic route
Hanko line
Karjaa → Hanko · Finland
Finland’s first private railway, opened in 1873 and paid for by St Petersburg merchants who wanted an ice free winter port: forty minutes down the branch from Karjaa to Hanko.
Stations
- 0 kmKaris +1
- 13 kmDragsvik
- 16 kmEkenäs
- 27 kmSkogby
- 32 kmLappohja
- 39 kmSantala
- 48 kmHanko-Pohjoinen
- 49 kmHanko
The stations OpenStreetMap maps along this line, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2642834: 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of S 1607
Questions and answers
How long is the Hanko line?
The Hanko line runs 49 km from Karjaa to Hanko.
How long does the Hanko line take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 40 min for the 49 km. That is an average of 74 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 120 km/h.
Who runs the Hanko line?
VR.
How old is the Hanko line?
The line has been in service since 1873. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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