Finland #2 - The train

It’s hard to find so many geographically distinct places in the same city I presume.

Helsinki keeps surprising me every day as I turn around a corner.

One of the very first places I came across was Central railway station of Helsinki.

It’s very well connected via trams and buses.

Man I love railroads!! The station is astounding.

Enormous volume. Gorgeous architecture.

There are many railway lines connecting the city to rest of Finland.

In India, we are talking about 15 bogies for the trains.

Here the longest train I saw had mere 5 bogies!!

The trains are splendid, very clean and comfortable!

Well why won’t be, even in 3 bogie trains there are many empty seats all the time!

Here every dog surely has not just their day but actually all the days are theirs.

Separate vacant spaces for dogs and their masters/mistresses in trains, trams, buses!

The trains do travel at a very high speed, only possible because entire rail road is barred for any outside vehicle or outsiders.

But yes, I absolutely loved the railways and felt really pleasant to travel in such a vacant train!

The architecture of the long distance trains is also estimable.

Although, one warning, even in night trains, one has to book a sleeping coach separately.

Many people travel in chair cars during overnight journey, off course, chair cars are very comfortable.

Like on any other product, railways also offer promotions during holidays.

As during summer, many of the Finnish people are away in their summer cottages relaxing!

There are hefty discounts over 40-50% for numerous destinations.

Also, there is a concept of advance ticket!

If one books a ticket a week in advance, certain discount is offered.

However for a cancelled ticket, returned amount is very less or sometimes even none!

Well, enough in the ticketing I think!

Thankfully for us, we can travel to 2 neighboring cities on our travel pass.

I took a short trip on one of the routes just to experience the ‘clickedi  clackdi’

Journey was nice except for the stunning silence in the compartment! 

One thing I strongly felt everywhere was the amount of infrastructure available is more than required for the existing population.

It's not that infrastructure is too much or anything but the population is very less...