Today’s live text updates
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19:29 Helsinki - Kemijärvi 08:50
Distance: 984.5km
Avg speed: 74km/h
14 stops:
Pasila
Tikkurila
Riihimäki
Hämeenlinna/Tavastehus
Tampere/Tammerfors
Parkano
Seinäjoki
Kokkola/Karleby
Ylivieska
Oulu/Uleaborg
Kemi
Rovaniemi
Misi
Kemijärvi
#CrossBorderRail to/from #LongestTrainEU Train 11 of 45
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19:29 Helsinki - Kemijärvi 08:50
VR
🚆: SLM, ABB Sr2 Lok 2000, 9 double deck sleeping cars, 2 double deck carriages, 1 single deck restaurant, 6 short car wagons
⚡️ (25kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅ (full dining car)
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂 (inside spotless, windows a little grimy)
Interrail: 😐 (compulsory res, depends on type of accommodation)
This is today‘s #CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU intro video https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/sM9veCaRHmeDHmbkxMByNJ
It explains what’s happening today
The actual record bid starts Monday at 1900 EEST in Kemijärvi
Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail to/from #LongestTrainEU Day 0 - 6 Sep - Helsinki, onto night train
Today the trip north to Kemijärvi starts!
How am I back in Helsinki for the second time in 5 weeks? 🤔 And no flights involved. And Bourgogne is a long way from here! #LongestTrainEU
Busy morning preparing things. Newsletter done. #LongestTrainEU follow up done. And my ferry is docking in Helsinki.
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Today’s introduction and summary videos
All the #CrossBorderRail daily videos are on my Peertube channel
Today’s photos
Today’s background
New borders:
None
Borders already crossed:
Mockava 🇱🇹 – Trakiszki 🇵🇱
Frankfurt (Oder) 🇩🇪 – Slubice 🇵🇱
It is possible to make the trip from Berlin to Vilnius in a day, although this is going to be the first time I am trying to do it all in one go.
Works in Berlin mean a departure from Gesundbrunnen not Hbf, and it will be my first time changing in the newly rebuilt Warszawa Zachodnia station. And beyond Białystok everything is rather slow, but it ought to at least all work.
Today’s route
The full zoomable and scrollable map, including today’s route, is on uMap here.
