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 Since several material providers for the 4rail.net live in Finland, it was decided that the Finnish timeline for the current happenings would probably be interesting to many readers. We will try to add news from the Finnish rairoading environment regularly, usually adding some backgorund to what happened.  Latest developments
for the year 2010
Latest developments
for the year 2009
Finland Timeline for the year 2010 Toughest Winter for Years in Finland  The severe cold, ice and snow have caused delays and cancellations on the traffic and this has caused added strain to operator VR-Yhtyma, which runs the trains for itself and the Helsinki Metropolitan train owner company PKJ (Pääkaupunkiseudun Junakalusto Oy). The additional costs for operating in the severe conditions were counted to be several million according to VR-Yhtyma. Especially hit on the Helsinki area were new Alstom/CAF built Sm4 local trains and the 1970's built Sm1 type, while the new Flirt/Sm5 trains have been at home just like in the snows of Switzerland. (added 1/2010)  To the Top of the Page Finland Timeline for the year 2009 Helsinki Main Metro station flooded  The above Metro train is a Bombardier built unit 222 of type M200. The station is on ground in Vuosaari in the eastern suburb of Helsinki. (added 12/2009) Flirt EMUs were taken into production use in Helsinki area  The Stadler built EMUs will add much needed capacity and replace some of the older totally obsolidated class Sm1 and Sm2 EMUs of VR-Yhtyma. The EMUs are co-owned by the cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa (60%) and 40% by the VR-yhtyma of Finland. (added 12/2009) To the Top of the Page | Created for 4rail.net by John McKey. Pictures by Pekka Siiskonen, Ilkka Siissalo, Sanna Siissalo and John McKey.  Also on super high speed  Super High Speed News provides you the newest happenings and trends in the super fast railroading.  A TGV and AGV Theme Page provides information on these most succesfull super high speed trains. 
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