This high speed *_arctic_* train gives me hope that we can have one here in Canada serving the Northwest Territories/Nunavik (with runs to the major cities of Canada ), and (maybe) also on that can serve in Alaska.
@3:00 The platform on the far side of the tracks was used by passenger trains up until the end of services in 1992. When the new line opened and Norrtåg started services, the station was renovated. One day soon, Finnish and Swedish trains will meet on either side of the station building, Finnish gauge on the north side and Swedish gauge on the south side.
What @@nori8627 said. Finland’s 1520mm is the old Russian gauge, 4mm narrower but effectively interoperable with Russian gauge. Until Russia invaded Ukraine, Helsinki & St Petersburg were connected by the Allegro high-speed Pendolino train, and a night train went all the way from Helsinki to Moscow. There are some fairly wild proposals in the EU Parliament to force Finland to change their entire network to European gauge so that foreign operators would more easily be able to enter the market. The single track railway bridge between Haparanda and Tornio actually has both European and Finnish gauge tracks nested within each other. Trains from Finland can go as far as Haparanda 🇸🇪 and trains from Sweden can go as far as the old station in Tornio 🇫🇮 (but not the currently active suburban halt at Tornio Itaienen)
Wow, so interesting fact! And I'm really surprised too about the different Finnish and Swedish gauge. Between Sweden and Norway, yes it's the same, right?
@@PointOfTrips Yes, Sweden, Norway and most of continental Europe (not Spain and Portugal) and Great Britain use 1,435mm gauge. There are multiple passenger trains that cross the Sweden/Norway border every day, including the famous night train Stockholm-Narvik, local trains Storlien-Trondheim, and intercity trains Stockholm-Oslo and Gothenburg-Oslo. There's also lots of freight. The Port of Narvik sees minerals from Kiruna in Sweden and the so-called North Rail Express (NRE), which carries truck trailers (usually refrigerated and frozen groceries) on a 27hr 1,950km journey from Oslo to Narvik via most of central and northern Sweden.
Small constructive criticism...I hope. Not all your viewers are "youth fare" eligible. While I know I could go look up the fare myself...if you are putting a fare on the screen it should reflect what the average person would pay in addition to your discount. Tak for din forståelse. De bedste ønsker fra en schweizisk bedstemor.
The fastest train in service goes 200 km/h in Sweden. The regina train series like you had on your thumbnail did go 303 km/h..... With a custom testbed version. The X55 which is SJ's variant of the regina is rated to go 250 km/h. Newly built track is built to 250 km/h such as the haparanda line, but I'm not sure if they actually go 250 km/h in service. The old train control system ATC in Sweden can only handle 200 but the Haparanda line was built with European standard systems which at least theoretically is good to like 500 in it's best specced version.
This train during testing reached a speed of 303 km/h and i think this train was built by the same company who made öresundstågen because they sound exactly the same
What the station needs is a gauge changer between the Swedish 1.435m tracks and Finland/ former Soviet Union 1.520m tracks with SJ having C-Akv coaches being able to couple to a VR Group Ab Finland train
The reason the Haparanda station is so big is that it was built for cross-border traffic, with mind of people transferring between the Swedish and Finnish railways. Of course few will now make the trek all the way to take the land route to Finland when they can take the boat or a flight.
Rather nice Video. I would have loved to see some detail on how the guage change is handled between Sweden and Finland, since Sweden is using standard 1435mm guage vs. Finland's old russian 1524mm. Is there a station on either side that has triple rail tracks or anything similar? So far I haven't found any info on that...I'm pretty interested in such rail tech topics. Thank you!
There is a bridge crossing the Torne river and the SwedishFinnish border. The bridge has both standard gauge and the wider Finnish gauge. The normal gauge continues to the Torneå railway station in Finland and ends at a separate platform there. Several years ago there was a scheduled service from Sweden to there. The Finnish gauge continues on the Swedish side to the Haparanda station building. The station has one Finnish track side and a Swedish track side. Back in the old days you would change from Swedish to Finnsh trains here, which Lenin did back in 1917 on his way from Zürich to St. Petersburg. That is why the station is so large because many passengers were changing there. Also that is why you enter the station on the lower level through a small tunnel and into the building. Unfortunately no passenger trains are crossing the border at the moment. I think there is som cargo, though very little.
У нас за полярным кругом вечная мерзлота и на ней в принципе трудно построить железную дорогу, так как она будет плыть каждую весну. Кроме того за Полярным кругом у нас средняя температура около -50 градусов по Цельсию, а доходит и до -70 градусов по Цельсию. Не считая снежных буранов. Выдержит ли ваш поезд настоящие Полярные условия???)
These Regina trains initially had a lot of problems handling the harsh winter conditions, especially with snow and ice build up, but I believed they have solved it with modifications.
No the X2000 can't, it's designed for 210 km/h and has reached 276 km/h on a test. There litterally is a plaque on this train giving it the record at 303 km/h as mentiond in the video :-)
Adding this before watching the video the X2000 can still be argued as the fastest train still both the X52 and X2/X2000 are only allowed to go 200km/h the X52 accelerates much faster than the X2 but the X2 can keep higher speeds in the corners
The walk is about an hour through the town, but you can stop and grab some food/fika on the way as you will be walking through the central areas of both Haparanda and Torneå :)
Awesome and timely video! I am actually planning to do a trip from Stockholm to Helsinki, also walking across the border at Haparanda / Tornio. Glad to see it’s doable. Looking forward to your video showing you get up there from Helsinki with the night train!
@@roger0929 Is this sarcasm or are you uninformed? There is actually two different companies on the same route, Viking Line and Tallink-Silja. It is an overnight cruiseferry leaving every day at around 17:00. You get to wake up in the other city. Very expensive though, around 200€ for a round trip, but much cheaper than going around the Bottenviken/Perämeri.
I did this in February the other way around and it was a great trip! The station in Haparanda is absolutely stunning, as you could see in the video. I would take some time to explore everything. Because Tornio-Itäinen won’t be as exciting. And take some time to explore the border! you can visit the northernmost ikea for example. :D
@@raileon Awesome, thanks! Yeah I think the train gets in to Haparanda at around 19:00 and then the night train leaves around 22:00 so we will definitely have some time to explore. Unfortunately looks like the IKEA closes before we get there though. :(
Interesting to watch a video from my area! I grew up in Haparanda, and now I am studying in Umeå. I prefer the train over the bus, and my latest train trip (8 Nov 2023) included the Umeå→Luleå leg in the 9062. Unfortunately, trains between Haparanda and Luleå often get cancelled, especially on weekends, with "vehicle shortage" given as the reason.
There is a distant plan to build a new railway between Luleå and Kalix as well. If everything that is in planning gets built, you will be able to travel all the way from Gävle to Haparanda at 250 km/h!
@@Simon-Andersen The south will get some too :) Ostlänken (Järna to Linköping) should start construction this year and the new Gothenburg to Borås railway just finished finance negotiations. Both will be 250 km/h.
For those wondering, the reason why some X52 sets (like the one he travelled on in the video) have different color schemes is because they were recently purchased by another Swedish operator (Upptåget) who had a red color scheme that deviated from Norrtågs blue and yellow colors. The red train sets have been temporarily (and somewhat hastily judging by the look of the 9032 train set) painted with advertisements for the Norrland region. They will probably be painted blue and yellow sometime in the future.
@@petter5721 Not true. There are many diesel passenger trains in Sweden. For example Linköping -Västervik, Linköping Kalmar, Karlstad - Torsby, Pågatåg from Nässjö to Halmstad, Vetlanda and Eksjö, Umeå - Lycksele and the whole Inlandsbanan.
This high speed *_arctic_* train gives me hope that we can have one here in Canada serving the Northwest Territories/Nunavik (with runs to the major cities of Canada ), and (maybe) also on that can serve in Alaska.
@3:00 The platform on the far side of the tracks was used by passenger trains up until the end of services in 1992. When the new line opened and Norrtåg started services, the station was renovated. One day soon, Finnish and Swedish trains will meet on either side of the station building, Finnish gauge on the north side and Swedish gauge on the south side.
Wait. Sweden and Finland don't have the same 1435mm track?
Finn has 1520mm gage.
What @@nori8627 said. Finland’s 1520mm is the old Russian gauge, 4mm narrower but effectively interoperable with Russian gauge. Until Russia invaded Ukraine, Helsinki & St Petersburg were connected by the Allegro high-speed Pendolino train, and a night train went all the way from Helsinki to Moscow.
There are some fairly wild proposals in the EU Parliament to force Finland to change their entire network to European gauge so that foreign operators would more easily be able to enter the market.
The single track railway bridge between Haparanda and Tornio actually has both European and Finnish gauge tracks nested within each other. Trains from Finland can go as far as Haparanda 🇸🇪 and trains from Sweden can go as far as the old station in Tornio 🇫🇮 (but not the currently active suburban halt at Tornio Itaienen)
Wow, so interesting fact! And I'm really surprised too about the different Finnish and Swedish gauge. Between Sweden and Norway, yes it's the same, right?
@@PointOfTrips Yes, Sweden, Norway and most of continental Europe (not Spain and Portugal) and Great Britain use 1,435mm gauge. There are multiple passenger trains that cross the Sweden/Norway border every day, including the famous night train Stockholm-Narvik, local trains Storlien-Trondheim, and intercity trains Stockholm-Oslo and Gothenburg-Oslo.
There's also lots of freight. The Port of Narvik sees minerals from Kiruna in Sweden and the so-called North Rail Express (NRE), which carries truck trailers (usually refrigerated and frozen groceries) on a 27hr 1,950km journey from Oslo to Narvik via most of central and northern Sweden.
Honestly amazing service for small towns way in to the arctic circle. Fin video som vanligt!
Small constructive criticism...I hope. Not all your viewers are "youth fare" eligible. While I know I could go look up the fare myself...if you are putting a fare on the screen it should reflect what the average person would pay in addition to your discount. Tak for din forståelse. De bedste ønsker fra en schweizisk bedstemor.
As a 38 yo i would second that
The fastest train in service goes 200 km/h in Sweden. The regina train series like you had on your thumbnail did go 303 km/h..... With a custom testbed version. The X55 which is SJ's variant of the regina is rated to go 250 km/h. Newly built track is built to 250 km/h such as the haparanda line, but I'm not sure if they actually go 250 km/h in service. The old train control system ATC in Sweden can only handle 200 but the Haparanda line was built with European standard systems which at least theoretically is good to like 500 in it's best specced version.
I dream of this train operating in Canada. Please have your people talk to my people!
This train during testing reached a speed of 303 km/h and i think this train was built by the same company who made öresundstågen because they sound exactly the same
Yes they are very similar to Øresundståg but wider :-)
@@Simon-Andersen Its the same exact carriages however with the cab being converted to the IC3 style cabs.
I think i missed it , but why is the 303km/h mentioned in the thumbnail? Is this what the units can do max?
He said it in the video, one unit managed to do 303 km/h on a test run. (kinda clickbaity ngl)
@@wojwesoly ah tnx ! I walked away for a min probably he mentioned it then 😄
This type of train holds the record for fastest train in Sweden at 303 km/h :-)
@@wojwesoly Yes definitely clickbait, but what u wanna do - you need to grab attention haha
Haparanda is actually not in the Arctic. You’ll have to travel another 100km north to get within the arctic circle.
What the station needs is a gauge changer between the Swedish 1.435m tracks and Finland/ former Soviet Union 1.520m tracks with SJ having C-Akv coaches being able to couple to a VR Group Ab Finland train
@@barsk1 thank you for telling me about so it should be Russian Empire then
The reason the Haparanda station is so big is that it was built for cross-border traffic, with mind of people transferring between the Swedish and Finnish railways. Of course few will now make the trek all the way to take the land route to Finland when they can take the boat or a flight.
Very nice video. Small detail, but since Haparanda is located south of the Arctic Circle it is technically not in the Arctic.
Thanks for watching! You are correct, but I guess this is close enough till someone build a line further north :D
@@Simon-Andersen There is a night train all the way to Narvik in Norway, that should qualify ;)
Why do you *CLICKBAIT* us?? That train does - according to your information - not reach the speed of 303 km\h❗
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It is true 🤯
Rather nice Video. I would have loved to see some detail on how the guage change is handled between Sweden and Finland, since Sweden is using standard 1435mm guage vs. Finland's old russian 1524mm. Is there a station on either side that has triple rail tracks or anything similar? So far I haven't found any info on that...I'm pretty interested in such rail tech topics. Thank you!
Dual gauge track across the bridge, not sure much crosses the border by rail atm
There is a bridge crossing the Torne river and the SwedishFinnish border. The bridge has both standard gauge and the wider Finnish gauge. The normal gauge continues to the Torneå railway station in Finland and ends at a separate platform there. Several years ago there was a scheduled service from Sweden to there.
The Finnish gauge continues on the Swedish side to the Haparanda station building. The station has one Finnish track side and a Swedish track side. Back in the old days you would change from Swedish to Finnsh trains here, which Lenin did back in 1917 on his way from Zürich to St. Petersburg. That is why the station is so large because many passengers were changing there. Also that is why you enter the station on the lower level through a small tunnel and into the building. Unfortunately no passenger trains are crossing the border at the moment. I think there is som cargo, though very little.
Simon, being a Danish do you understand and speak Swedish well?
Somewhat. I mostly just speak English as the profiffiency is very good in both countries
Will you do a review on Rail Baltica ?
How to pay for the coffee or snacks at the on-board café?
I paid by card :-)
Only cards are accepted on Norrtåg trains for many years now.
11:32 and 3:53 Why are the lights flickering
The rear lights on Swedish trains flash for increased visibility, although this is going away slowly with standardised regulations now.
@@jatterhog ok thanks
Sweden is just incredible even when it snows in the winter and having snow whilst on holiday is just amazing.
Thanks for the video
tack
Just 2 coaches 😂😂😂 our average passenger train have 22coaches
Please do a review on AVE Renfe and Iryo
I agree! And I would recommend you, if you haven't seen them, the videos of Simon about the Renfe Alvia, Renfe Avlo and Ouigo. 🙂
@@PointOfTrips I have seen them and are very good
@@mariadelmarjimenezarroyo Yes, very interesting!
They are coming in the future :-)
У нас за полярным кругом вечная мерзлота и на ней в принципе трудно построить железную дорогу, так как она будет плыть каждую весну. Кроме того за Полярным кругом у нас средняя температура около -50 градусов по Цельсию, а доходит и до -70 градусов по Цельсию. Не считая снежных буранов. Выдержит ли ваш поезд настоящие Полярные условия???)
These Regina trains initially had a lot of problems handling the harsh winter conditions, especially with snow and ice build up, but I believed they have solved it with modifications.
Nice overview I appreciate
I like trains without the tacky signs and ands ads on the side.
I just walked here from Finland! I wish I could live in Europe
Sweden fastest train is x2000 it can go 350+
No the X2000 can't, it's designed for 210 km/h and has reached 276 km/h on a test. There litterally is a plaque on this train giving it the record at 303 km/h as mentiond in the video :-)
Adding this before watching the video the X2000 can still be argued as the fastest train still both the X52 and X2/X2000 are only allowed to go 200km/h the X52 accelerates much faster than the X2 but the X2 can keep higher speeds in the corners
Not too keen on the clickbait...that train doesn't run 303km/h as others pointed out. Its like saying the German ICE drives 406km/h
Clickbait nailpic. 😢
Please dry your hand after washing it before putting it on the door handle when exiting the toilet, that's nasty man.
Love seeing the snow!
Все это здорово, но где люди? Вы воздух перевозите? Даже на станциях нет людей...
Nice video! Really love these regina trains.
hey! Amazing video! How was it to reach Haparanda from Tornio station? I'm about to leave for the same trip as well.
The walk is about an hour through the town, but you can stop and grab some food/fika on the way as you will be walking through the central areas of both Haparanda and Torneå :)
I like that Sweden greets with a large Ikea when stepping out the Finnish shopping mall.
It's an easy walk, takes about an hour and it's well signposted. I stopped in the mall on the finnish side on the way :-)
Mycket bra video Simon!
Awesome and timely video! I am actually planning to do a trip from Stockholm to Helsinki, also walking across the border at Haparanda / Tornio. Glad to see it’s doable. Looking forward to your video showing you get up there from Helsinki with the night train!
That trip sound superb!
Such a shame there's no ferry service between the two cities.
@@roger0929 Is this sarcasm or are you uninformed? There is actually two different companies on the same route, Viking Line and Tallink-Silja. It is an overnight cruiseferry leaving every day at around 17:00. You get to wake up in the other city. Very expensive though, around 200€ for a round trip, but much cheaper than going around the Bottenviken/Perämeri.
I did this in February the other way around and it was a great trip! The station in Haparanda is absolutely stunning, as you could see in the video. I would take some time to explore everything. Because Tornio-Itäinen won’t be as exciting. And take some time to explore the border! you can visit the northernmost ikea for example. :D
@@raileon Awesome, thanks! Yeah I think the train gets in to Haparanda at around 19:00 and then the night train leaves around 22:00 so we will definitely have some time to explore. Unfortunately looks like the IKEA closes before we get there though. :(
Interesting to watch a video from my area! I grew up in Haparanda, and now I am studying in Umeå. I prefer the train over the bus, and my latest train trip (8 Nov 2023) included the Umeå→Luleå leg in the 9062. Unfortunately, trains between Haparanda and Luleå often get cancelled, especially on weekends, with "vehicle shortage" given as the reason.
There is a distant plan to build a new railway between Luleå and Kalix as well. If everything that is in planning gets built, you will be able to travel all the way from Gävle to Haparanda at 250 km/h!
Wild to think that the only place you might be able to do that in sweden is in the far north :P
@@Simon-Andersen The south will get some too :)
Ostlänken (Järna to Linköping) should start construction this year and the new Gothenburg to Borås railway just finished finance negotiations. Both will be 250 km/h.
Any of this is not in inside the Arctic circle. The northernmost point, Morjärv, is 50km too south. Educate yourself before making clickbaits.
Very nice video :)
You find some interesting and rare trips!
What about the noise in the train ?
that's quite amazing
CX2 & CRH1A😂
🍀 P r o m o s m
Nice video. 👍
Was this video done recently? Nice to see snow and ice in July.
It was recorded in late April :-)
For those wondering, the reason why some X52 sets (like the one he travelled on in the video) have different color schemes is because they were recently purchased by another Swedish operator (Upptåget) who had a red color scheme that deviated from Norrtågs blue and yellow colors.
The red train sets have been temporarily (and somewhat hastily judging by the look of the 9032 train set) painted with advertisements for the Norrland region. They will probably be painted blue and yellow sometime in the future.
Thanks Gustav, this is very intresting and helpfull
When a swedish diesel train in the arctic circle is faster than a lot of expensive flagship ICE connections through germany :|
All Swedish trains are electric 😀
The train is not diesel and it is not within the Arctic circle. (About 80 km south of the Arctic Circle)
@@petter5721 Not true. There are many diesel passenger trains in Sweden. For example Linköping -Västervik, Linköping Kalmar, Karlstad - Torsby, Pågatåg from Nässjö to Halmstad, Vetlanda and Eksjö, Umeå - Lycksele and the whole Inlandsbanan.