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Hello and welcome back to snowy Finland today!
We’re going to be checking out the ‘G’ train, one of the commuter lines to the North of Helsinki and find our how, despite the harsh winters of endless snow, ice and -20 degree temperatures, the railways keep running on time in Finland… I hope you enjoy the video!
Date of Filming: 30/1/22
Camera: GoPro Hero 10 Black
Operator: VR (Finnish Railways)
Departure: Riihimäki, Finland
Arrival: Lahti, Finland
Cost: €5.70 (£5.05, $6.09)
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28 Comments
It's been several years since I've seen one of those trains, didn't know they are still running. great video!
It’s the same in Sweden as well. Most trains run on time even though it’s cold, snowy and icy.
Mine favorite view from train windows is coastal.
The Sm2 is actually getting replaced with the Sm5, which Simply Railway has a review on.
-20 in Finland: we are not afraid of snow and frost trains will arrive on time!
-20 in Siberia: cheers, it's warmer, you can walk down the street and eat ice cream
Meanwhile, in Germany, the whole railroad traffic is cancelled mid-day, leaving passengers stranded, because 5 mm of snow have accumulated. Media regularly call it 'snow chaos'. When I was young, we called that 'winter' and when the busses were cancelled, I would take the train. Now, let's enjoy the Finnish way! 🙂
11:30-I wish that we had these single-deck electric EMU commuter trains here in Ontario (Toronto) serving with GO (Government of Ontario)Transit; great video of an amazing and well-kept commuter rail service.
Ahhh rode on of these babies just this morning. Nice blast from 15 years ago when I rode them to work daily.
It would've really been worthwhile mentioning the history of this rail line though as it's quite significant but I'll do it for you.
The Helsinki – Riihimäki stretch is part of the first railway line built in what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland, Helsinki – Hämeenlinna completed in 1862.
When the important line to the Empire's capital, St Petersburg was built it was decided to branch it off from the existing line in Riihimäki, hence it became an important railway junction. The city of Lahti exiats for this very same reason, it developed around the railway as it offerrd a good connection to Central Finland via the Vesijärvi River and the Vääksy Channel which was built around the same time.
All traffic to Russia and Eastern Finland ran along this railway via Riihimäki up to 2006 when the so called "Lahden oikorata", a direct connecion between Haarajoki near Kerava and Lahti was opened, shaving almost an hour off the travel time to Lahti and destinations beyond. This of course left Riihimäki a bit of a backwater now and to keep up traffic on the bypassed section these G trains were introduced (although I guess that definition came later).
My favourite ride on these old elekthriskas is between Kouvola and Kotka.
Beautiful scenery
Hi,
You have posted regarding the Vande Bharat(Indian flagship) train on Twitter.
What did you not like in it? What do you think might be the improvements that can be made? And compared to cost to benefit/comfort ration. How do you rate it?
Waiting for the VB video! As, nearly 500 such trains will be rolled out in the next 2-3 years, including 200 sleeper/overnight ones, which will be clocking 220kmph speed. It will revolutionize Indian train travel, but obviously wouldn't match the levels of European or the Japanese ones or even the Chinese ones, but still looking at the cost, it's okay. Hoping each iteration will be a better one. As some will be manufactured by Alstom and other by ICF, Chennai and also Russian and Swiss players are there.
These trains are going to be replaced by new stadler flirt's in near future.
Being that it is a commuter, the seats should be reversible. Lets the passengers have more leg room and face the direction the train is going. Reversible seats are comfortable. Now if a family rides, they can create the seating so they face each other.
The train looked scarce of commuters. If that line's capacity usage is around 50% with highest usage around 70%, they should reduce seating and add an extra toilet room. 2×2 seating would create a wider aisle and possibly wider seating area so commuters are smooshed into each other. Leg room and toilet/sink accessibility are needed necessities even in a commuter line. The view is awesome, but I don't see the cars being as spacious and comfortable if their seating capacities were 100% used.
Bro try Indonesian new high speed train but open for public june 2023😁😁
…reminds me of my childhood
Huge snowfall (snowplow circle around the streets in 30min steps) but no matter what: train always on time!
And now, with all the fancy "tech"?
Less than 50cm and nearly NOTHING works.
This footage is great and its very nice to see that still some countries are able to run all tve things like normal!
Suomalaiset
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VR Hokkaido with their KiHa sets!
For real, even the styling and color scheme!
Unfair comments on UK snow preparedness; most parts of UK see snow infrequently/unpredictably, Scottish Highlands excepted.
I don't think Brits (or Irish, for that matter) would want to stand the considerable costs involved in being fully ready for snow that might or might not happen. It's very different in the Nordic countries, where it's not a case of will it snow, but of how deep. I'm not talking here of just railways; the same principles apply to roads.
I'm pretty surprised there is not a single Finn here stating "still run on time" as false 😂
some things in UK don't always operate as well as they could do to there full protentional and its been that way for quite a number of decades now. things have got worse at times in the past 3 years or so. i suppose as they say. things will have to get much worse before they will ever begin to get better. train travel is so expensive in this country compared to some other Europe train routes.
If you have a chance, come to Indonesia. Take a south route train in West Java. Start from Jakarta-Bandung then continue Bandung-Yogyakarta/Surabaya. Take an Executive/Luxury/Priority class and day time trip
Siis onko näitä vanhoja vieläkin liikenteessä😂 ite kuljen vaan ic:llä ja pendolinolla
There is still and old station at Lahti harbour built in 1869 and is still operating as a cafe. You can still see where the tracks used to be and they have saved some tracks for the old steam trains to turn around. The steam trains runs every summer on certain routes. You should really visit Lahti again at summertime.
P.S there is also a very beatiful route between Parikkala and Savonlinna in the Eastern Finland near the border of Russia. That line almost all the time goes next to lakes.
Beautiful
That amount of snow? You mean 2” of snow!
By the way I AM SURPRISED that they didn’t clean the stairs of snow up to the platform. And the platform. In other countries station staff would be sweeping out of with shovels or brushes . That is a hazard!
Thank you for sharing the video from my mom's homeland. I was born and raised in Maracaibo, VEN. When I was 16, we moved out of the country to Finland and I was amazed at how well everything worked, trains, buses…just everything! All worked on time no matter the weather. Finns are used to deal with snow. I moved to Las Palmas in the fall of 2021 and there are no trains here lol. I've always liked trains and ships, at least here I can take a ferry to another island. I miss Finland very much, that's why it was really nice to see this video. Thank you so much and I'll subscribe to your channel for sure. All the best! Take care 💜 Ciao! 👋
Hi from Scotland, I enjoyed your video, I worked on the railway in Scotland for twenty seven years starting as a junior railman working in the stations and later as a relief signalman covering five signalboxes, when I worked in the stations in the winter our priority was to keep the stairs and platforms clear of snow and ice, we had hand held snow ploughs and were supplied with rock salt we do have trains fitted with ploughs and there are snow blowers, I was surprised that the stairs and at least the platform edges in your video were not cleared of snow, I have watched video's of Japanese railways during the winter and surprised at the amount of snow that they get, it can be from track level to above the platforms, they have teams out clearing the platforms and snow ploughs clearing the lines, worth while looking the video's up.
Sm2 units are MADE to run in any kind of weather. like its predecessor Sm1.
Amazing trip.