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Article: Finns strive to reduce rail journey times: Finland's geographical features are a natural restraint upon plans to improve the national rail network. But RHK is striving to overcome some of the infrastructure problems, while VR is investing in new rolling stock to improve journey times.(Finland)
- Article from:
- International Railway Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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FINLAND's railway is gradually coming up to speed in the most literal sense, with improvements underway to reduce journey times through a combination of new line construction, track upgrading, and new rolling stock. Even though the pace of change is relatively slow, the government and the railway industry believe that the country's long-term rail strategy will eventually reap rewards.
Plenty of money is in place for existing track programmes, according to the infrastructure owner, Finnish Rail Administration (RHK). But what is lacking is sufficient resources to build new lines to address the problem of capacity on the 5600km network, 90% of which is corn posed of ...