VR procures nine sleeper coaches and eight car-carrier coaches from Škoda Transtech Oy. The new rolling stock will be in use by the end of 2025. The value of the procurement is approximately EUR 50 million.
The new rolling stock will meet the growing demand for night train travel as well as passenger expectations. VR’s aim is to make night train travel even more popular.
The stunning images have been chosen by travel and photography blog Capture the Atlas for the site s annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year collection.
Tourism, mining and forestry could all benefit from a new railway across Lapland, with possible extension to existing tracks via northern Sweden to Norway’s port of Narvik.
During the study, preliminary routing alternatives and their impacts will be drawn and public hearings will take place, as w
European autumn holidays: Levi in Finnish Lapland for seeing autumn's colours, floating saunas, catching the northern lights, biking & hiking through nature