Early on a Monday morning in early August, a train rumbled across a thawed out Arctic landscape in Finland before screeching to a halt at its final destination at a border crossing with Sweden. It may sound ordinary for rail-loving European societies, but it was actually the first time these neighbors had the option to […]
For the first time since 1988, passenger train traffic between the two Scandinavian countries has resumed | The new line connects Oulu, Finland, with Parande, Sweden, and reopens the possibility of continuous train travel from northern Finland to Sweden and from there to Europe