The ''Sibelius'' was a train run daily by VR between Helsinki, Finland, and St. Petersburg, Russia. The service began on 31 May 1992 to ease congestion on the night service ''Repin'' after the fall of the Soviet Union increased traffic on the border. The maximum speed of the train was originally , and it was later raised to . Travel times between the two cities were originally over 6 hours, but they reached 5 hours and 12 minutes in 2002 and dropped further to 5 hours and 6 minutes in 2006. The service, along with ''Repin'', was discontinued on 12 December 2010 when it was replaced by the new high speed service ''Allegro''. Some of the carriages of the train were supposed to be used on regular traffic between Helsinki and Joensuu on IC 5/12 starting on 31 October 2011, but their introduction was delayed until 10 January 2012 due to pending homologation from the Finnish Transport Safety Agency (TraFi). For instance, the

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s of the carriages had to be changed.

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Sibelius
on the VR website {{Europe-rail-transport-stub Named passenger trains of Russia Named passenger trains of Finland International named passenger trains Railway services introduced in 1992 Railway services discontinued in 2010

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