Night train route
VR Night Train
Helsinki → Kolari · Finland
VR Night Train in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 989 km
- Fastest time
- 14 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 68 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- VR
- Train
- double-deck sleeper
- Countries
- Finland
- In service since
- 1966
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Finland’s northernmost railhead: an overnight car-carrier sleeper above the Arctic Circle to the fells of Ylläs and Levi.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 14335383 — 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
- 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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