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Train routes in Finland
22 routes · classic 18 · night train 2 · heritage 2
22 routes cross Finland in the World Train Map atlas. The longest is the VR Night Train at 989 km; the fastest is the Rantarata Coastal Line, running up to 200 km/h; the oldest line dates to 1869. Every route links to its facts, photo and story, and to the interactive world map.
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Classic (18)
- Rantarata Coastal Line
Finland’s two capitals on the 1903 Rantarata: “coast line” by name, though the track runs mostly inland through granite cuttings and forest. Pendolino Plus sets joined the double-deck ICs in late 2025.
Wikipedia ↗ - InterCity 25
Finland’s Main Line north to the Gulf of Bothnia: the double-deck IC25 is now the fastest to Oulu, with ex-Russia Allegro sets running alongside as Pendolino Plus since late 2025.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗ - VR InterCity
A double-deck InterCity east along the Karelian line to Joensuu, gateway to Finland’s forested North Karelia.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗ - VR InterCity
The Savo line threads through Finland’s lake district to Kuopio, water rarely out of sight; InterCitys continue north to Iisalmi and Kajaani.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗ - InterCity
Into Finnish Lakeland by the tunnel-heavy Jämsä gorge cutoff, to Alvar Aalto’s university city among a thousand lakes.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗ - InterCity
Fourteen direct ICs a day to Finland’s sunniest city, down the Ostrobothnian flats to Vaasa and the UNESCO Kvarken archipelago.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗ - Tampere–Pori railway
Opened in 1895 and following the Kokemäenjoki river down to the Gulf of Bothnia, with only five intermediate stations in 132 km.
Wikipedia ↗ - Jyväskylä–Pieksämäki railway
Finnish 1,524 mm track through the lake country, one stop in 79 km between the junction town of Pieksämäki and Jyväskylä.
Wikipedia ↗ - Pieksämäki–Joensuu railway
Single track, unelectrified, running east through the Finnish lakes from the junction at Pieksämäki to Joensuu near the Russian border.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗ - Oulu–Kontiomäki railway
166 km of single electrified track inland from Oulu on the Gulf of Bothnia to Kontiomäki, where five railways meet.
Wikipedia ↗ - Iisalmi–Ylivieska railway
Opened in 1923 as the cross-country link between Finland's Savonia and Ostrobothnia main lines, 154 km through the forests of Kainuu.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗ - Turku–Toijala railway
Finnish 1,524 mm gauge across Southwest Finland and Häme, joining the port of Turku to the Helsinki–Tampere main line at Toijala since 1876.
Wikipedia ↗ - Haapamäki–Seinäjoki railway
The middle section of the old Tampere–Vaasa railway of 1882, still carrying the diesel run west from the junction at Haapamäki.
Wikipedia ↗ - Tampere–Haapamäki railway
Opened in 1902 north from Tampere into the lake and forest country of central Finland, meeting the Vaasa and Jyväskylä lines at Haapamäki.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗ - Iisalmi–Kontiomäki railway
Opened in 1904 through the forests of Kainuu, the northern half of the Savonia route from Iisalmi up to the five-way junction at Kontiomäki.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗ - Riihimäki–Lahti railway
Opened in 1869 as the first stretch of the Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg railway, and still the connection from the Helsinki main line east to Lahti.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗ - Kouvola–Kotka railway
Opened in 1890 down the Kymi river to the Gulf of Finland, ending on the quays of the port of Kotka.
Wikipedia ↗ - Haapamäki–Jyväskylä railway
Single track east from the Haapamäki junction to Jyväskylä, opened in 1897 through the lakes of central Finland.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗
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Night train (2)
- Santa Claus Express
Rolls out of Helsinki by night and crosses into Lapland by morning: sleepers and car carriers bound for the Arctic Circle.
- VR Night Train
Finland’s northernmost railhead: an overnight car-carrier sleeper above the Arctic Circle to the fells of Ylläs and Levi.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗
Heritage (2)
- Jokioinen Museum Railway
The last stretch of Finland’s once-extensive 750 mm network, run by volunteers with steam engines from Finnish, German, Soviet and Belgian builders, veterans of the country’s vanished narrow-gauge lines.
Wikipedia ↗ - Porvoo Museum Railway
Summer museum trains out of Helsinki: a 1950s Dm7 “flat-hat” railbus leaves the main line at Kerava for the 1874 branch to Porvoo’s wooden old town.
Wikipedia (FI) ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence