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Aurora Borealis Express
The ''Aurora Borealis Express'' is an overnight express train operating between Helsinki and Kolari in Finland. The train travels via many major cities and towns in Finland, and stops at most of them. The total distance is a little under 1000 kilometers, and lasts for 14½ hours to 16 hours depending on direction and season. The service is bi-directional, with a corresponding train operating southwards over the same route. The train consists of seven to ten sleeping cars, two open seating cars and one restaurant car. The sleeper cars are a mix of old VR blue carriages, blue cars and new intercity double decker cars. The restaurant car and coach class car are modern intercity cars,with the restaurant being a single decker car and the coach car a double decker one. The service is the last one that uses blue sleeper cars outside of the peak season making the cars quite rare. A few car carrier wagons are added at the end of the train to transport cars. On the last distance from Oul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ylitornio
Ylitornio (; ; ; ) is a municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located in the provinces of Finland, province of Lapland, Finland, Lapland along the Torne (Finnish and Swedish river), Tornio River, opposite the Sweden, Swedish town of Övertorneå Municipality, Övertorneå about by road to its northwest. The two localities are connected by an international bridge that goes between Övertorneå through an island and enters Finland in a rural portion of Ylitornio's municipality, about north of town. Literally translated to English the two locations would be called ''Upper Tornio''. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish language, Finnish in contrast to much of far-western Finland. Finland is officially Languages of Finland, bilingual. A unique ski flying hill project has been presented. The inruns of the hills will be through a mountain inside a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
