Classic route
Hanko line
Karjaa → Hanko · Finland
Hanko line in pictures
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- Distance
- 49 km
- Fastest time
- 40 min
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Train
- VR commuter
- Countries
- Finland
- In service since
- 1873
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- 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
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