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Finland gains direct rail link to Europe this summer (yle.fi)
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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

"As far as I can tell Kolari to Lagos, Portugal, is the longest journey you can take on multiple trains within the EU,"

5000km in a week probably. Does Portugal even have high-speed rail? And if it did, I'd be surprised if they had one in Lagos.

Meanwhile, Ranne has backed a long-range plan to build a parallel European-gauge track alongside the existing Finnish tracks from Haparanda to Kemi and perhaps eventually Oulu.

That's great! Eventually getting rid of Russian gauge will be good for Finland. If they are ever successfully invaded, it won't be easy to transport everything by rail through the country.

[-] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

IIRC Portugal isn't even well connected to Spain by train. I think there's a twice a day connection between Porto and Vigo in the north. Not sure about the southern part.

[-] dakoriki@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Finland and Russia already use different rail gauge, because Finland still uses the older Russian (Empire) gauge and Russia uses "Soviet" gauge. Its only a 4 mm difference but still any trains that would have to run both gauges have to be designed for both, which most of russian trains are not.

Also the electrical system is completely different

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

"to rest of Europe" or "to European rail network"(?) might be more accurate?

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