FINLAND | Railways | Rautatiet

[frank_hki]

Originally Posted by Tin_Can

It's quite interesting that so few companies have shown interest of entering Finnish railway market.

Well, there's nothing to show intrest to, yet. Earliest on 2017 will the commuter train services be open for competition. And there's not yet real commuter trains outside Helsinki. In that way that could be benefit for Turku and Tampere, too, as they are planning to have such systems.

Originally Posted by Tin_Can

I imagine that Veolia is interested of operating more profitable lines around major cities and with as little competition from other operators as possible. Passengers would definitely benefit from it,as competition could lower the ticket prices.

Yes, that's exactly what they have in mind: Helsinki commuter trains. There's definitely no markets for two operators for that, if we want to keep things simple. Don't know how much it would effect to the ticket prices... the train tickets are the same as in metro, trams, and buses anyway = it should lower them all. Of course Veolia would be probably more cost effective operator, so if they really could offer way cheaper tender than VR, it would have positive effect. And at least on Helsinki region trains it wouldn't be up to whether VR is willing to rent trains or not, since Junakalusto Oy (i.e. cities of Helsinki espoo and Vantaa) owns the new FLIRT Sm5 trains.

[chornedsnorkack]

Originally Posted by frank_hki

Well, there's nothing to show intrest to, yet. Earliest on 2017 will the commuter train services be open for competition. And there's not yet real commuter trains outside Helsinki. In that way that could be benefit for Turku and Tampere, too, as they are planning to have such systems.

How should all the stations in real Finland be served? Between Kupittaa and Salo... there seem to be Lauste, Maja, Littoinen, Nunna, Runko, Piikkiö, Makarla, Villisi, Kauhainen, Toikksla, Paimio, Preitilä, Heikoinen, Kevola, Pitkäporras, Hajala, Talola, Häntälä, Halikko and Puistokuja.

[frank_hki]

Originally Posted by chornedsnorkack

How should all the stations in real Finland be served? Between Kupittaa and Salo... there seem to be Lauste, Maja, Littoinen, Nunna, Runko, Piikkiö, Makarla, Villisi, Kauhainen, Toikksla, Paimio, Preitilä, Heikoinen, Kevola, Pitkäporras, Hajala, Talola, Häntälä, Halikko and Puistokuja.

Here's a map of the planned network on Turku region

Source: Finnish Transport Agency

(BTW Varsinais-Suomi is Finland Proper in english )

[chornedsnorkack]

Originally Posted by frank_hki

Here's a map of the planned network on Turku region

Where is the Raisio-Naantali railway?

[frank_hki]

Originally Posted by chornedsnorkack

Where is the Raisio-Naantali railway?

There is no plans for commuter trains to Raisio. Instead the planned and hopefully soon built light rail will serve Raisio. Nuorikkala stop is in Raisio though, but not right in the centre.

No realistic plans for Naantali, afaik. There is however some ideas about extending either commuter train traffic or the light rail there. But that's all pretty much in "after 2030 - maybe" file, I think.

Here's a poor quality picture of the planned light rail. blue means the first phase, red the second. As you can see, the plans are quite open still, judging by the amount of dotted lines.

[Tin_Can]

Raided Liikennevirasto's photostream for few photos of Kehärata.

Aviapolis.
image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr


Lentoasema.
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You can find more photos of Kehärata (and other projects) here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/liikennevirasto/

[Janne_H]

Länsimetro has also flickr-site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lansimetro/ (loads of photos)

Maybe I could also post here my photos from last Tuesday. Otaniemi metro station.

[Tin_Can]

VR is testing first new IC-train steering cars.

VR has started testing new IC-train steering cars,which will enter public service in next summer.
VR has also decided to use option to purchase additional steering cars and restaurant cars for IC trains. This brings total number of new steering cars to 25 and number restaurant cars to 26. Additional order will be completed by autumn 2015.


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