Traveling in Finland by train is convenient and pleasant. Trains are adapted for the needs of both business passengers and families with children. And on trips to Lapland, you can take even a car.
In the night train you can go to a sitting place of the daytime car or in a sleeping car in a compartment for one, two or three people. Sleeping wagons are available both in traditional blue fast night trains and new two-storey trains. All night trains have a restaurant car. In blue speed trains there is enough space for the transport of bulk luggage.
New sleeping cars
Recently, VR has been commissioned on the Helsinki-Rovaniemi route a new two-story sleeping wagons. In each coupe of these car two beds. The coupe can be booked and only for one passenger.
Some coupe on the first floor can be combined - it is convenient, for example, for family travel. Each coupe on the second floor has its own shower and toilet. On the first floor of shower and toilet common for
All coupe. In each coupe, a separate climate control system. Smoking in sleeping cars is prohibited.
Discounts
On the inner Finnish trains there are the following discounts.
A group of 3-10 people receive a 15% discount from the cost of tickets, for groups more than 10 people provides a 20% discount.
Discounts are not applied to children's tickets, but children are taken into account when determining the size of the group.
For up to 6 years old, kids can go accompanied by an adult for free if it is not reserved for them.
One child from 6 to 16 years old can go for free on a sitting place accompanied by one adult who has a ticket without discounts.
In other cases, children from 6 to 16 years old receive a 50% discount from the cost of the ticket.
Persons who have reached 65 years receive a 50% discount on the ticket price. To obtain a discount, a passport should be submitted.
Finnrail Pass
With FINNRAIL PASS you can ride at least all the Finland and see all interesting places. FINNRAIL PASS is valid for one month during which you can ride without limitations on the train
Accordingly, three, five or ten days. Day for travel can be chosen at your discretion. FINNRAIL PASS can be purchased if you have a permanent residence in any country except Finland. Children under 17 receive Finnrail Pass with a 50% discount. Finnrail Pass can be bought at all major railway stations in Finland.
Car transportation
Most night trains also have the possibility of transporting a car. To date, there is an opportunity to transport the car by train from Helsinki, Turku and Tampere in Oulu, Rovaniemi, Colari and Kemyarvi and back.
The car can be downloaded for a train as it yourself and entrust it to VR employees. You can also send the car to the destination for 1-5 days before your trip - in this case the keys can be taken at the station at the station.
Timetable trains on which you can carry the car available on english language.
It is most profitable to buy an auto-pack (autopaketti), which includes the transportation of a car and 1-2 coupe for 1-6 people. Auto-pack prices are available in English.
By train with bike
- In the luggage car - 9 euros, if you pay in advance in ticket office, 10 euros if you pay for the conductor
- Double charges are charged for tandems and bicycles.
In InterCity trains (IC / IC2 listers):
- 9 Euro - quantitative places for bicycle transport is limited, and they must be booked in advance in ticket office.
Skiing
Ski transport can be both paid and free.
In fast and night trains (Pikajuna - Literature P):
- In the luggage car 5 euros for a couple of skis
- In fast trains on the shelves of passenger cars, if the place allows - for free
- In the new bedrooms under the beds or fastened to the wall - for free
If you are driving skiing soon or on a night train in a luggage car, you can pay for the provision as in the ticket office at the station and directly the conductor.
In InterCity trains (IC / IC2 listers):
- In the service car there are places for transportation of 5 pairs of skis and two snowboards (fasteners are closed by lock).
- Places can not be reserved in advance.
- Ski transportation on such places is free, but requires a 50-centle coin for pledge for use.
In PENDOLINO trains (Literature s):
- Skis can be held for free as manual sting.
Buying tickets
Usually a train ticket in Finland can be bought directly before its departure - there will be places. However, sometimes it is worth taking care of the purchase of a ticket in advance. If you are traveling with
Bicycle - you need to book places in advance - their number is limited. In periods national holidays - Christmas (December 23 - 25), Day of Ivan Klapala (June 20-22) and Easter (the date changes from year to year) trains can be fully occupied, so if your trip falls on these numbers - then it is worth thinking about tickets in advance. Also during the Russian new Year holidays (December 30 - January 10) Tickets for trains from / to Russia can be fully bought. During school holidays (End of February - the beginning of March) Flights to the northern ski resorts are especially popular.
How to pay for a ticket?
- At the train stations, tickets can be bought at cash for cash or by credit cards Visa, Ok, Eurocard, Mastercard, Diners Club, American Express, as well as Visa Electron
- In the automata (Junamaatti), foreign credit cards are not accepted at the station.
- In trains at the conduits, you can buy tickets for cash or using Visa Credit Cards, OK, Eurocard, Mastercard, Diners Club, American Express. Conductors do not accept payment by Visa Electron cards.
- R-Kioski can buy tickets for cash or by credit cards received in R-Kioski.
Tickets can also be bought in the VR online store. E-tickets (E-Ticket) You can print yourself, but you need to consider that they are nominated and they must be submitted to the conductor along with the identity card. You can also pick up tickets purchased on the online store (Junamaatti) or ticket office at the station.
Passenger and freight rail transportation in the country Finland provided a state company VR Group.. Passenger transportation between Russia and Finland is under maintaining Finnish railways.
Train schedule Saint Petersburg - Helsinki
Traveling on the train at Finland is convenient. A transplant from train on the train is easy, and the bus message is consistent with the train schedule.
Interactive Train Movement Map
Interesting Finnish interactive Card. Trains in Finland in real time. Blue rectangles indicated stations, green trains on the way. Yellow mugs - trains going with a delay or timing advance. A pop-up after downloading window can be closed, or select the option Asemahaku. - Search for stations and Junahaku. - Search trains.
Click on the train pops up the destination station, time of arrival, time of departure and lagging time / advance schedule. By clicking at the station, the station name and list of trains departing and arriving at the train station appear.
Release compensation
Compensation for violation of the VR Group train schedule, cruising in Finland, can be obtained when a train is delayed at least one hour.
Payment of monetary compensation to Railways passengers for finding high-speed trains Allegro depends on the time of refinement: for being late from 30 to 60 minutes - in the amount of 25% of the cost of travel (ticket and placentar); For lateness from 61 to 120 minutes - in the amount of 50% of the fare; For lateness from 121 minutes - in the amount of 100% of the fare. RZD compensation is made only by travel documentsdecorated in ticket office on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Railways Finland.
A small review of Finland railways.
About the railway network as a whole. The first difference between Finnish railways from other European countries is of course the width of the rut. She is here 1524 mm, that is, the same as on the expanses former USSR, not 1435, as in the uncrowded Europe. The rolling stock due to this sewn, respectively, in the wagons is spacious. Since the width of the rut is one, then in Finland, freight cars from Russia can directly. Russian cars I saw quite a lot. The railway network is sufficiently thick in the south of the country, and completely sparse in the north of the country, which, however, logical is the main part of the country's population concentrated in the south. "Deck" in the south of course relative, the density of the railways is much less than in the countries of Central Europe. The main lines are electrified with a change in 25 kV 50 hertz. There are several border crossings with neighboring countries, with Sweden and with Russia. Through the border crossing with Psub, as I understood, there is only a cargo movement, there is a bunch (four-way path), several border crossings with Russia, the main thing is Vainikkala - Buslovskaya.
Cargo traffic. Apparently, not very intense, freight trains is practically not visible. Basic loads are a forest and raw materials from Russia - there are Russian tanks, half-haul, covered cargo wagons.
Passenger traffic. The main lines are a triangle: the border of Russia - Vainikkala - Helsinki - Turku - Tampere. The most intense long-distance traffic between Helsinki and Tampere. This line is an electrified two-day all over, there are several passenger trains per hour, with the exception of the night break for 3-4 hours. Turku - Helsinki on average one train per hour. Turku - Tampere about one train every two hours. There are several types of trains, these are high-speed "pendalo", intersis, express, well, and local trains. There is a night train "Santa Claus Express" from Helsinki in Kemiyarvi in \u200b\u200bLapland with modern bedroom double-decker cars. Live composition different years Issue But the trains are clean, it's nice to ride. Speeds are quite high, Turku-Tampere, the usual no interxist train held an average of 120-140 kmh, Tampere - Helcinki The usual train was often 160 kmh, "Pendolino" is also 160 kmh, in some areas up to 220 km.
Prices. They are high enough, on average at the level of other countries Western Europe. For example, Tampere - Helsinki, a distance of about 180 kilometers. Ticket prices Suite: Pendalino -36.5 euro, travel time for 1 hour 30 minutes, intersisati - 31 euros 1 hour 45 minutes, local train 24 euros and on the way 2 hours. As can be seen, the time difference is not fundamental to pay 1.5 times more expensive. I drove on the local train. If you take a ticket for the week and earlier, it will cost about 10% cheaper. There are still some special offers. Prices and schedule can be viewed on a good site: http://www.vr.fi/ There is English and Russian versions.
Well, enough scribble, look at the pictures :)
Station in Turku.
Intersiti Train Turku - Helsinki at Turku Station. Modern electric locomotive class SR2 "Guinea pig" of the Swiss building. In total, Finnov 46 such cars. From its Swiss gangs (SBB RE 460) is characterized by a width of a gauge, a current and auto-3 motor arms. Part of the machines of this type is equipped with a combined coupling (CA-3 and screw tie). Basically, the electric locomotives of this type are tested by the trains of Intersitsea, usually these are six two-storey wagons. Coloring in Finns looks beautiful, contrasting white-red or white-green.
Train Turku - Tampere and Eletrovozoz SR1. Electric locomotives SR1 of Soviet buildings are the most numerous on Finnish railway, all the Finns 110 such cars. Constructed at the Novocherkassian electric-building factory from 1973 to 1985. Universal locomotives used in both the passenger and cargo movement. Despite the honorable age, they run enough quickly, this train held the speed of 140 km. Knew how to do sometime :)
Fragment of schedule to Turku. In Finland, two states of the language are Finnish and Swedish, and they completely dislikes each other. For example, the city of Turku in the Swedish ABO. The schedule is written in two languages.
Machine for the sale of tickets. Beale is bought easily and quickly. Of course, there is a menu in English. You can only pay for cards, cash only in the usual key. My German Maestro automatic accepted without problems.
Lokomotiv SR1 and train Turku - Tampere. SA-3 motor arms are not installed on all locomotives, and with screw screeds are found.
Cars-restaurant!
Route plate and car room. Surprised that the train tickets were with places.
Inside. Finnish wagon sewn of his European fellow, here is spacious.
Landscapes outside the window are very reminded by Russia, only clean everything. Forests are a lot. Mostly coniferous breeds and birch. In the south of Finland, the climate is softer, and already allows you to grow some cereal cultures.
The train led by the old Soviet electric locomotive SR1 fled very quickly, often 140 kmh, as can be seen by GPS.
Another view from the window.
Fight from two "pendolino" in Tampere. Each train consists of six wagons. Coloring or white-green or white-red.
Train Intersisati with Electrovoz SR2.
Helsinki's night train - Kemiyarvi. Modern two-storey sleeping cars, in some coupe there are even a shower. Wagons of Finnish production.
The train is made up of both two-storey and ordinary cars.
And the carriages for transportation of cars arrived at the back.
Station names are always in two languages. Funny Christmas trees are drawn on the wagons.
Alstomovsky electric train class SM4. I was driving on such from Tampere in Helsinki. Complete set of 2 + 3 seats, rarity on European railways. As a rule, it is 2 + 2. But the Finnish rut is wider, respectively, the wagons are also wider.
Some stations are wooden.
Views from the window. Line Tampere - Helsinki.
Russian policemen.
Locomotive.
Electric train SM4 at the station in Helsinki.
Interior of the two-storey car in Inssisiti trains. Convenient, spacious, clean. But it seems to me that there is too little luggage in a two-story car, because it is not regional train And people are routing with baggage, and on such shelves the bag is hardly possible.
The car has a special room for telephone conversations. Nowhere has not seen this.
Stairs.
There are 220V sockets.
Train stations in Helsinki. Many new Swiss Stadlers.
In Finland, stadlers have the designation SM5.
There are also more references, SM1 and SM2 classes, which were produced in 1968-181.
Station in Helsinki.
Platforms.
Electrovoz SR2.
Trains Allegro run between St. Petersburg and Helsinki. This is a multi-mounted 25kV + 3kV "Pendolino". Time on the way to date 3 hours 36 minutes. In my opinion, a good alternative to the aircraft. Four couples day.
And finally, the bonus track is the rail transport of Helsinki.
Metro. In Helsinki, one metro line with a developing. In the center passes underground but most of the path passes through the surface. There are no turnstiles in the subway. On the metro and other types of transport, a single urban ticket is taking place. Direct one day costs 7 euros.
And a few pictures of trams. Old model.
Most an interesting route: 3B and 3T, passes "eight" through the city center and station. And along the path, the tram suddenly changes the number. At first, looking at the scheme, it seems that without a bottle there will not discern but then enlightening comes.
New model tram, multisective "caterpillar". They are low-profile, quieter and inside the air conditioner works. By the way, once checked tickets. The controllers went on one to each door. So it is not recommended to ride without a ticket.
I liked the transport in Finland, only a little expensive.
Most recently, the story of the blogger DOCENT.LIVEJOURNAL.COM, dedicated to the station in Helsinki, Finland, appeared on the site's pages of the site.
Now the author shares his impressions of the railway journey (and even with its own car) in Finland, admiring the service and the cost of services of Finnish carriers and comparing them with Russian.
As always, the story is accompanied by a detailed photo report. In the recent auto desk in Finland, it was decided to make part of the railway path. There you can travel on the train right with your car!
And by the way, you know that recently and from Moscow also became possible to come to Helsinki on the train of Russian Railways? For some 664 euros, you get a ticket to the car there and back, the shelf in a 4-bed coupe without sockets and a key, with three unfamiliar passengers, whatever you bored on the road, and the dream of the soul at the end of the trip.
Ask "Why do I need a ticket back and forth"? Did not determine the exact date of the end of the trip? Or think to visit the grandmother in St. Petersburg on the way back and uncle on Valdai, bring them a full trunk of cloudberries and a box of Lapland cheese? Forget! Railways carefully will save you from the tedious trip behind the wheel!
And also give you a double refreshing night walk on the early distress of border stations Buslovskaya and Vainikkala, for the inspection of your car border guards, which are unlikely to find something there, because Russian Railways have already taken care and that all your things you know know everything in a compartment , And inspection, it's just a pretext, well, just that I could breathe air, useful, they say before bedtime.
However, let's go about everything in order, because I still wanted to tell you about Finnish trains!
I would like to remind you historical fact, Suddenly, who forgot him: the first railways in Finland appeared with the filing of the Russian side, because when the locomotive was invented, Finland was still part of the Russian Empire, and therefore, the width of the rut is, as well as throughout Russia 1520/1524 mm.
After the revolution, when Finland became an independent country, Russian rails became part of the Finnish railway. The Finns did not move onto a pan-European rut standard of 1435 mm, and the Soviet Union, until 1985, supplied them electric locomotives built at the Novocherkassian factory, they still ride our northern neighbors. Otherwise, how two parts of the once single network became similar to each other during this time!
By the way, surprised that the Soviet electric locomotives also perform the role of a maneuver locomotive.
From Russia to Finland can be reached by Russian Railways trains, including a direct night train Moscow-Helsinki "Lev Tolstoy", as well as the recently launched high-speed train "Allegro"operating in the direction of St. Petersburg-Helsinki.
Distance in 1108 kilometers This train overcomes in 14 hours, a ticket to the usual 4-seater coupe costs 107 euros. The coupe of this train did not detect an electrical outlet to recharge the laptop, in addition, there was no possibility, as in most russian trains, Go to a restaurant car (or even just to the toilet) closing the compartment compartment. In this case, I, of course, have a "truder", but what to do with strangers on the coupe? I can and paranoid, things do not bother. Fortunately, I usually drive not alone and you can leave someone "on the suitcases."
Once I had to ride some more modern carThere were also sockets, and even a TV, which truth showed only interference. There were still automatic doors, vacuum toilets and other elements of civilization. True, as they say, one added, another, for some reason removed: in this modern car there were no "RUNDUKES" (such drawers under the bottom shelves, threw the bags there and sleep at them calmly, no one at night in a quiet thing in quiet). But most importantly, there were electronic locks in those coupe! True, the keys were not issued to them. The conductor said, almost all or lost them or walked, and they do not supply new from the plant. Well, you understood, "I still have our own, our Rasha."
Another time I went from Moscow to Prague in the Eurovantlets, rIC standard. There was even a sink in the coupe. But their main lack of them were that such a coupe was triple and very close. As they say, neither God candle, nor hell of a kocherga, but if you go threesome, and there is not very large-sized, then normal.
It looked like such a compartment ...
I don't want to talk about the reserved sequarters from Russian Railways, I didn't go to them for a hundred years and as much as I was not going for a minimum. Especially, after a trip to the "Plazcarpe" of the Finnish train.
Someone will probably honor me now, and say, not well spoiled, the whole country in such trains is more than half a century and nothing. And since such glamorous, here are the wagons of Russian Railways in which even toilets with a shower in the coupe! Yeah. Yes Yes. I know such cars.
It looks like such a compartment ...
There are such coupe seems to be in the train "Lion Tolstoy", Moscow-Helsinki, but it's worth it is a pleasure worth 23 with horseradish thousands of rubles. One way! True for the whole coupe. Here the dear reader will exclaim, the bugger from irritation, "Yes, you completely lit up! Want to comfort, boarding grandmother! "... quietly, calm, dear. Just breathe deeply and keep reading.
The cars, by the way, are transported by Finland here in such auto ...
Let's now remember about railways service with car transportation. Cars for car transportation are also cling to "Lero Tolstoy." In other directions, the service is not yet offered, though, I believe that she could be quite in demand, I would prefer myself to get to some cities with a car in a train and then to have complete independent freedom of movement. If it were not for price realities.
Wait, do not open the RZD.ru website, I have already collected all the data. Or, no, open it in the new tab of the browser and see, otherwise I suddenly believe me. Yes, by the way, write me how much time did you get from the moment of opening the site before the discovery of this information? And then open the site vr.fi, and repeat the same action there. For the most advanced users, try booking a ticket here and there, especially in the "coupe + car" format and share your impressions.
Now read black on the White on the Railways website: 450 Euro For the transportation of the car there and back. A plus 4 Euro for the reservation of transportation, and 0.3 Euro For every 100 euro announced car value. And this is very important: the car can be issued only there and back.
That is, you need to predetermine the duration of the trip and the day of return. Do not ride both if you planned to return from Finland by your car. By the way, the customs regulations, as far as I know, prohibit from the country of the European Union without a car, leaving it there, but she will leave or by their passage or by train, I do not remember such a clarification. Maybe Russian Railways and imposes his service?
Do you think the inconvenience end? Ha! They just begin. You will obliged to pick up your suitcases From the trunk of the machine and stump with them in the coupe. You obliged not to lock your car And do not include the signaling. In the car you can leave only what it is completed on the traffic rules: a first-aid kit, fire extinguisher, tools, spare parts, emergency stop sign, etc.
It would be possible to explain it by customs and border troubles, only here is the inspection of the car on the border, everything is precisely planned (and then you never know how you agreed with the conductor and it closed my eyes to your minivan, covered with all weapons and drugs). Apparently, although I can be mistaken, on the border you will be pulled out of a warm coupe on the frost on any of the warm coupe, we will behave in the sneakers and tripods on the outbreak platform to AvtoVagon and will inspect your car. Why not organize all these formalities at the station when loading a car, and in the end of it in the end, for such money?
In Finland, differently: I put the car into the car, things can be left inside, lock the car or not your business.
Suppose it was all the border bureaucracy and we met with it, as we mumble with still inevitable evil - receiving Schengen visas, the need to replace passports after the expiration of free pages or the term of its action, and airports to the airports and in frontier. Let's return to your beloved and native Russian Railways.
The supervisory price was only for the car! From above, you will need to still pay 107 euros for a room in a quadruple compartment, well, or those 23 with a fucking thing, if you don't want to shake in a train without a shower and toilet in 2 steps from bed.
If you failed to accumulate money on a separate coupe with a shower, Railways are pleased to offer you a shelf in a 6-seater placenta of the international train.
If we can not return back by car by our move, multiply this amount for two. Minimize the following: 107 * 2 \u003d 214, 214 + 450 \u003d 664.
And this is if you are traveling alone and with a car, excluding other shavers. If you are divided into two (although when traveling with cars in Helsinki from Moscow is not available), it will work out 332 euros, for this money you will be brought to one end, in one compartment with 3 unfamiliar people, with a car for a distance of 1108 kilometers. The coupe will not be sockets, sinks, and in the car there will be no common soul.
By the way, to book immediately and the car and the coupe "in one click", like Finns, it is impossible on the Railways website: do it all separately!
If the dear reader caught up to this place, he wonders, and why did I dismiss all these calculations and for which I so joyfully trol РЖД? So we got to the main thing, now I will understand everything.
Applause, a Finnish colleague and a partner of Russian Railways comes to the scene - VR, in a white freshly depressed suitsom to a green shirt.
So what does "VR" offer us? We traveled about 900 with a small kilometers from Rovaniemi to Turku, along with our car. Well, not 1108, of course, but what in the modern world some 100 kilometers? 7-10 liters of gasoline in ordinary passenger car? Hour path without traffic jams? Moscow from end to the end in its modern borders? Or Moscow is still more likely? In general, it is not important in this context. But we paid for all this pleasure 245 Euro! for two! With a car!
And without a car, one place in the double coupe will cost 106 euros.
And yes, I didn't just write the word "pleasure." Maybe this is all impressed me so much, because I first traveled on the European train? So what did we get for 245 euros?
Our "Placer" In the Finnish train. Yes, I did not get sealed, "Berth" In English means "reserved", or "sleeping place", it is under such a term that it is spelled out on the VR website and in the ticket.
Three sockets 220 volts in the coupe, and there are two separate alarm clocks for each passenger. Sink. If necessary, if you eat with children or company, two double coupe You can combine into one, the door is provided between them.
I also liked the branded bed linen. And there are normal duvets, and not stupidly sheets, in which you still need to manage to wrap the blanket! Nothing needs to receive or donate, even more so pay separately. It came in the coupe - everything is clean, ironed, already settled and ready for your parish, as in the hotel. A, Russian Railways Weak, yes?
I now want such a pillowcase, duvet covers and sheets! In full souls! Where to order them?
Shower, common truth, but tell me, in which wagons of Russian Railways have a common shower? Do you know that it is structurally provided in general, even in the very old "Amenderfov" cars? Or maybe I rarely go and somewhere they work?
Left to the right: a common shower in the car, a shared toilet, a separate shared toilet for children (all the necessary hygienic tools are of course present in such cases).
The second shared toilet in the car is intended for people with limited features and passengers with children. It is more spacious, it has handrails, a folding table for the sware of children, a pot, sink, necessary hygienic agents. The door to the toilet opens with a touch button, the crane with water (as well as in the usual toilet) opens, the liquid soap falls out. In all toilets, there are also mini souls next to the toilet, you understand for what purpose). This, by the way, is in general in all public toilets in Finland.
Pointers on "Amenities" are also available - finding everything you need is very easy.
The door of the coupe is locked up with a key, two keys for passengers and one key from a common soul. You can safely close the coupe and go to the car restaurant, that we actually have done. And for one investigated the Finnish train.
Second floor of the car. Here are a compartment with bathrooms ("Sleeping compartment"). Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of such a coupe. If you are too lazy to go to the site vr.fi, where there is virtual tour According to Finnish trains, it is certainly less pathetic than the one shown above the same coupe of the Railway train, something like that in which we rode, including in the area, but only there is still enough compact bathroom with a shower.
Do you know how much a ticket is a "major" coupe with a shower and toilet from "VR"? Pause. Here the Russian Railways end the cigarettes and break down a lighter, he spits on the floor and mumbling something obscene leaves the scene under whistle and hooking from the hall. So here. It costs 266.63 Euro, Also with the car and also for two. At least this is what the site is Vr.fi now.
Calculate there on the course 23 with a horseroming of rubles for a similar exclusive Russian Railways service. If you are traveling alone, pay 248 euros for such a coupe, and for the one in which we drove 179.96. When traveling without a car (autopacket), the fare in such a coupe will be 116 euros per person and 233 euros for two.
Something like I'm trying to translate at the rate, I can't have 23 with horseradish thousands of rubles. It would be possible to sin on an old Chinese calculator, but also on the computer such a figure does not work for some reason.
By the way, I do not think that here among the nights on the gearstroke to you in the coupe, a stranger will fit a suitcase in a compartment and starts savage to the chicken-covered chicken. In the "Lion Tolstom", with an almost empty car, it was in our coupe that for some reason new passengers simply satisfied. On weekends, however, all these prices are above the average euro for 30.
By the way, there is no conductor in the Finnish bedroom car, he's no need it: Lingerie is set, wake you will scream through a speakerphone, or you can put a built-in alarm clock. And tea? Tea in the restaurant car. Well, or you can brew if the electric kettle or boiler took with you - there are sockets.
When moving from one car to another, you see a display with its number. Do not get lost. No, it is not a train of 70 cars, it's just his "systemic" number.
Tambour. Doors are all automatic. On the right toilet for disabled people and passengers with children, which I showed above.
Finally reached the restaurant's car, where the beer drank and snacks.
Quite comfortably and silently.
There is a train and a sedentary car.
A third of the sedentary wagon occupies a luggage compartment.
In Turku, maneuver locomotives are more traditional.
The same station in Turku is quite clean and cozy.
The train went on to Helsinki, and cars with cars those who arrived in the Turku chuckled and drove to the ramp for unloading.
Dangerous work.
Our car is discharged - on he goes its own way.
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Finally thought. It seems like the WTO in the yard, in theory, the doors are open to all kinds of international competition. Is it time to shake the monopolistic rest of the very beginning of the thickness of Russian Railways? If with all sorts of temperate there, it is complicated, the rut is different, and then they are from us, then would you start to launch to us at least Finnish "VR"? With our realities, of course, you can only dream about it, but suddenly if not the prices would decrease, then at least comfort rose? And in the end, RAZ rail trains go to Finland, and in other European countries, why do not go to us to European trains? Like airlines. Here you have a healthy competition.
In the meantime, it turns out, it is unprofitable to travel with a car from Russia to Finland, for the money and with the hemorrhoids that Russian Railways offer us, you can at least two weeks, if not more, ride in Finland on a rented car. And in 23, with a horseradish, the ticket at all can be flown over an hour and back, instead of shaking in their major coupe with a toilet bowl. The fact that in Europe is a common phenomenon, an elementary comfortable compartment for two places or even a compartment with a bathroom - Russian Railways still refers to exclusive services "for the rich".
VR. Finnish railways. JANUARY 11TH, 2010
VR-YHTYMÄ OY (until 1922 Suomen Valtion Rautatiet, until 1995 Valtiorautatiet). The company was founded in 1862. The first railway branch in Finland joined Helsinki and Hämeenlinn. The main period of development of the Finnish railways came to the end of the 19th century. Start of the 20th, as well as for the 30s of the last century. After the war, the LAW Finland took up the global modernization of rolling stock and the transfer of the park to electric and diesel trains.
IN this moment The company is divided into two parts: VR HENKILÖLIIKENNE, engaged in passenger traffic and VR Cargo specializing in cargo. VR Yhtymä is a transport operator, the network of railways belongs to the State RataHallINTOKESKUS State Agency. Length of Finland 5 801 kilometers of which 3,067 kilometers are electrified.
Equipment:
Electric trains
VR uses two main types of electric trains. SR1 and SR2.
Electrovozoz SR1 It was ordered in 1973 in the USSR, at the Novocherkassian Electrovostroitelnaya Plant. A total of 110 units of electric locomotives were acquired, which makes it the most massive Finnish electric locomotive. At the moment, two units are written off, and one unit gathered a repair shop in Hywinka from spare parts and unnecessary buildings (Electrovoz number 3111). From Western analogues, the SR1 electric locomotive was distinguished by increased reliability, but less power. Clicks SR1: Kaalihäkki, Sähköryssä, Susi, Siperian Susi, Mosse.
Electrovozoz SR1
Electrovozoz SR2 He began to be made in 1995, the release lasted until 2003. In total, 46 units were released. The tender for the supply of new electric locomotives won the tandem from the German company SLM and the Swiss-Swiss concern ABB. The maximum speed of the electric locomotive reaches 232 km / h. At the moment, all ordered electric locomotives are in the ranks. Clicks SR2: Marsu, Alppirusu, Käkikello, Möhkö.
Electrovozoz SR2
Diesel locomotives:
The main types of diesel diesel locomotives VR are three types: DV12, DR14 and DR16.
DV12. Produced by the Finnish firms of Valmet and Lokomo from 1963 to 1984. In total, 192 pieces of which were currently written off 11. At the moment, DV12 remains the most numerous of all VR tractors. Clear DV12: Deeveri, Reeveri, Aallonmortaja, Ruotsinlaiva (2700 - series).
DR14.: In the mid-60s, VR needed heavy diesel locomotive for work in the depot. To replace the old VR3 stamps of the VR3, a tender was announced, who won the Finnish company Lokomo. In just 1968 to 1971, 24 diesel locomotives were created. At the moment, all diesel locomotives are active. In 2002-2005, the Park of these machines was modernized, which made it possible to increase their service life until 2020. Clear DR14: Seepra, Belarus, Raitakukko, Viirukukko, Ruukunkukko, Dieselkukko (Kukko was the nickname of the VR3 locomotive).
DR16.. In 1981, it was proposed to increase the fleet of diesel diesel locomotives. In the tender from 4 participants, the order received the company Valmet, which ordered 23 new diesel locomotives. At the beginning there was no accurate solution about the power plant and therefore the first 4 units were equipped with various types of motors. Locomotives 2803 and 2804 were equipped with Wärsilän VASA 8V22 motors and Locomotives 2801 and 2802 Motors PIELSTICK 12PA4V200 VG. As a result of the tests, the Pielstick motor was selected. At the moment, 5 diesel locomotives are written off, of which all the first 4 prototypes are. Clicks DR16: ISO-Vaalee, ISO-Vaikee, Valkko.
In the early 90s, VR realized that for competition with bus and aircraft reports, the company needs more convenient and fast transport. As a result, the company decided to acquire PENDOLINO high-speed electric locomotives in Italy. A total of 18 units were purchased. However, strong curvature iron tract Spel practically no favor from such a step. The only route where Pendolino can possibly use this distillation Helsinki-Tampere and the direct route of Helsinki-Lahti. Nickname: Pendo, Sähkömato
Pendolino.
At short distances, in the metropolitan region, VR uses 3 types of trains: SM1, SM2 and SM4. In other places, the Czech diesel trolley is used (I can't stand it, I refuse it differently) DM12.
SM4.
DM12
The main statistics of the company in 2008.
Company revenue: 1,503 million euros
Income: 64.4 million euros
The average number of workers: 12,516 people
In 2008, 69.9 million passenger travel was committed, which is the absolute record of the company. Of these, 13.8 million travel was trains far follow. In the direction of Finland - Russia was committed 432,000 trips.
Cargo shipments transported 41.9 million tons of cargo in 2008, internal cargoes amounted to 25.5 million tons and international 16.5 million tons. The main category of goods was the products and raw materials of the forest and paper industry, only 20.3 million tons. The volume of the metal industry amounted to 4.9 million tons and the chemical 1.8 million tons. International transportation came mainly to Russia, 16 million tons. The main category of products Import wood. Transit carriage through Finland amounted to 4.8 million tons.
The largest investment in the construction of paths in 2008 was the railway for the Talvivaara mines of 25 km long. In total, in the early year, 340 million euros were spent on the modernization and construction of new paths. Also, the construction department of the VR trajectures won several foreign tenders for the construction of roads. Of these, there are 10 km in Sweden, an update of 55 kilometer roads in Estonia to Tartto-Valga, as well as a contract for maintaining a 300 kilometer mining road at Finland and Norway.
