Don’t trust the time on your phone in the frontier region. It keeps changing depending on transmitter mast. Look at your watch or verify the time zone on the mobile. Photo: Haparanda station, Swedish time
Hei AnetSI wanted to know myself about Haparanda - Tornio rail situation. Getting reservations in Finland is a pain. Stations are not staffed, even in major cities. The eurorail reservation would be mailed to you on paper. Useless. The new App of VR, the Finnish railway, sells full tickets with reservations only. Unless your staffed station in Germany, Sweden or where ever sells you a reservation for Finland, the only way is by a phone call to Finnish railways. You can order your reservation in English and pay by Credit Card. Phones are answered fairly quickly. On 2022-07-25 I travelled Helsinki to Kemi by sleeping car, met two Interrail travellers who were not aware of the time difference, had thus missed the night train in Tornio Itäinen (East). I cycled the ~40 km to Torneå älv, crossed that river, walked too and fro over the frontier in the twin cities Haparanda/Tornio. The track on the East side of the river is being renewed, I hope passenger trains will run again in 2023 as they
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