InterCity Train Helsinki - Turku, a beautiful Finnish summer journey

[@ericjamieson]

Love the train announcement. Finnish is such a cool-sounding language.

[@giuliam508]

I think so me too!

[@chrisbrewer8929]

It's in three languages Finnish, Swedish and English.

[@epeli4585]

@@chrisbrewer8929 Finnish and swedish are the real launguages and then english exists for tourists lol

[@palamirtammarimuthu17]

Wow!l love this train and the ride!.....and the scenery!....😍😍😍😍😍👏👏👏

[@wibas2008]

Thank you Austin, and you be thankful to god or destiny that you are born in Finland

[@07101941]

wibas2008

[@banaani-ec3nv]

i would love to travelled with this and to turku harbour

[@ReidarWasenius]

Have a pleaseant journey!

[@taru570]

Very good train, no need for first class, an empty train with plenty of room will suffice

[@lukacsattila9868]

Ez a szép vonat hogyan lehet ennyire üres? Én egész nap vonatoznék ezen!

[@1HarryH]

Great video 💖 thank you for sharing ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ Have a happy day 🌞

[@ridwanpermadi8808]

i love this train

[@BIGNICKELL1]

You do get around. Another visual interesting video but it would have been nice to see more countryside although possibly there was no more to be seen on that trip.

[@MakovskiyRodion]

01:17 It's "Leo Tolstoy" train from Moscow. I don't knew what RussianRailways use smaller RIC passenger cars on this route. For example - Allegro HighSpeed from Saint-Petersburg have a standart Russian and Finnish dimension gauge.

[@nikolasojala5296]

In 1748, the Wylam waggonway was built to a 5 foot gauge for the shipment of coal from Wylam to Lemington down the River Tyne. In 1839, the Eastern Counties Railway was constructed; and in 1840, the Northern and Eastern Railway was built. In 1844, both lines were converted to 4 foot 8 1⁄2 inch standard gauge. In 1827, Horatio Allen, the chief engineer of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, prescribed the usage of 5 foot gauge and many other railroads in Southern United States adopted this gauge. For the building of Russia's first major railway, the Moscow - Saint Petersburg Railway, engineer Pavel Melnikov hired as consultant George Washington Whistler, a prominent American railway engineer. Whistler recommended 5 foot on the basis that it was cheaper to construct than 6 foot while still offering the same advantages over 4 foot 8 1⁄2 inch and that there was no need to worry about a break-of-gauge since it would never be connected to the Western European railways. Following a report sent by Whistler the head of the Main Administration of Transport and Buildings recommended 5 foot and it was approved for the railway by Tsar Nicholas I on February 14, 1843. The 5 foot gauge became the standard in the whole Russian Empire, and its successor Soviet Union and Finland and in the once Soviet-influenced Mongolia. That area is now the Baltic states, Ukraine, the CIS states, which include Russia, Belarus and the Caucasian and Central Asian republics. The first rail line in Finland was opened on January 31, 1862. As Finland was then the Grand Duchy of Finland; a region of Imperial Russia, railways were built to the then Russian track gauge of 5 foot (which is 1524 mm exactly). In 1886, when around 11,500 miles of 5 foot gauge track existed in the United States, almost all of the railroads using that gauge were converted to 4 foot 9 inch, the gauge then used by the Pennsylvania Railroad. In the late 1960s the gauge was redefined to 1520 mm in the Soviet Union. At the same time the tolerances were tightened. In Finland Finnish State Railways (Valtion Rautatiet in Finnish) kept the original definition of 5 foot (1524 mm), even though they also have tightened the tolerances in a similar way. The international high-speed train Allegro (Sm6) between Helsinki and St. Petersburg is specified as 1522 mm gauge. High-speed trains have less tolerance against gauge error, but this way through running works well.

[@dmitriinikolaev917]

Cool!Interesting video.

[@adrianangstenberger7922]

W O N D E R F U L !

[@larissamelo7507]

How do you do to get an intercity ticket in Finland? And how much does it cost?

[@tantelilis3017]

Look 1 : 37 double decker train. Gorgeous

[@elmokelmu]

Very common

[@joaodavimendonca7346]

🐇🐰DAVI😍👍f

[@EPR007]

What camera you have?

[@lambofgodrulzz]

He got pick-pocketed at 10:12 x)

[@doc7austin]

oh, good catch!!! now I know where my 100 Euro bill went. Haha; my travel companion took his cell phone out of my bag

[@joaodavimendonca7346]

🐇🐰DAVI😍👍g

[@TheAbderaman]

never seen double deck coaches so high ! higher than the sncf v2n french coaches

[@Thomas1980]

very nice video

[@valoxiii422]

do helsinki region cards work on these trains?

[@redneck96100]

No

[@oseisthebestrailway5011]

Why didnt you eat in the Duetto plus Restaurant?

[@stefandee1970]

2020, train at noon cost aprox 10€

[@blinder2786]

I’ve never seen a Finnish train that empty

[@doc7austin]

the bus competition is creating quite some headaches for VR Finnish Railways

[@xkolejarzpl2782]

Fine journey, what speed the train was going?

[@Itapirkanmaa2]

+Polski Człowiek Most of the Helsinki-Turku line is certified for either 180 or 200kph for the Pendolino it needs to be added. These are lighter, as there is still much soggy ground along the line, and the Pendolino can pass through the several tunnels at full speed for its pressure tightness qualities.

[@DINESHGADA]

good to see

[@railwaystrains3384]

Nice

[@ismolaitela6219]

4:00 toi oli sitä hyvää aikaa vielä kun rantaradalla sai ajaa 200km/h, nykyisin lpv-karjaa 80km/h ryöminnällä 😡😡

[@stagna1959]

Why does someone need double decker if train is so empty ? You need it if you have more passengers than usual train can take.

[@darkmage7280]

It's just incidental that it's so quiet. Most double decker trains in Finland are packed.

[@Robert-pn3cq]

This was just an unlucky trip usually its quite full

[@karllindgren2834]

Is it normal that the trains in Finland are empty, in Sweden they are allways full.

[@doc7austin]

+Karl Lindgren The Arlanda Express in Stockholm was also very empty; check out this video m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpareJdpnrh_mK8

[@tissot233]

Depends hugely on the time and train. Example pendolino from Vaasa to Helsinki will always be full, but a double decker Intercity train at ~13:00 on the same route will be near empty usually on the top part. That Helsinki-Turku route was hit by a new motorway that shortened the train and car commute to be about the same. Though, I believe they just recently shaved ~30 mins.

[@doc7austin]

+tissot233 Finnish trains at peak times on fast routes can be very full; but, its maybe true for 20% for all journeys; upper deck on a IC train usually stays empty, e.g. on the Pieksimaeki-Tampere route

[@SIperianSusi83]

Många tåg som tar passagerare från anslutande tåg brukar vara ganska fulla i Finland.

[@supreeyawongbangchuad3573]

Hi .. I have to go to TURKU from Helsinki by Train . But u ddon't know which station i have to go for train to TURKU can you please help me - Thank you

[@denn120]

Just go to Helsinki Central, and then buy a ticket to Turku

[@haryobagushandokomrt4877]

would it be possible anyone of you guys placing those ferry and those tram mass rapid transport in Bromo valley in East Java, in Java island with beautiful grand kremlin castle masjeed side by side with HagiaSofia grand praying song masjeed castle for all civilian who like to hear holly praying song and science preach talk humanitarian effort and special concert resital music praying concert hall just like Parthenon in Bromo valley? Just the thought if you interested to carry on interconnex with Surabaya airport grand MRT station and Malang airport grand MRT station to connect uptown agropolis villages with the downtowners civilians in East Java province?

[@عبدالرحمنالهنداوي-ت4ر]

lt s. great. fatlwi.

[@عبدالرحمنالهنداوي-ت4ر]

fatlwi

[@dickvarga6908]

What are these things? Trains? No way! In Canada trains carry bulk cargo, ie, grain, coal, potash, LNG, petroleum, cars, building supplies. People travel by cars, buses, aircraft. Egad, Finland is sooooo primitive!

[@torpmorp1324]

And that’s where the common virtual reality logo was stolen from, the Finnish railways...

[@darkmage7280]

Nice try.

[@BlueRockEye]

There are coal and cargo trains in Finland.

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

For those things Finland has got different trains.omg.

[@blinder2786]

What?😂 of course finland has some versatile highways, plane- and bus routes too. The trains just happen to be such a good way of traveling here.