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Kolari railway
The Kolari railway (Finnish: Kolarin rata) is the northernmost railway in Finland and goes between Tornio and Kolari. It is 186 km (116 mi) long. The railway is not electrified and it has Finnish broad gauge. It connects to the Oulu–Tornio railway in Tornio.
It was built in 1928 the first 79 kilometres (49 mi) Tornio–Kaulinranta and in 1967 the remaining 123 kilometres (76 mi) to Kolari. There are two mine railways, both 20 kilometres (12 mi), north of Kolari to the mines of Rautuvaara and Äkäsjokisuu. These mines were the primary reason to extend the railway north of Kaulinranta.
There were in 2009-2010 short term plans to extend the railway 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Äkäsjokisuu to the new Tapuli mine in Sweden, but the mining company decided to use Narvik as shipping port instead. There are also suggestions on extending it to Skibotn or Tromsø in Norway.[1]
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about 121 kilometres north from the Tornio railway station, and about 62 kilometres south from the Kolarirailway station. Most trains at Pello are hauled...
Tampere in the south, Oulu further north, and Rovaniemi, Kemijärvi and Kolari in Lapland. Car transport trains stop at other stations along the way for...
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ports instead of Kirkenes. Another proposal has been to build a line from Kolari to Skibotn and Tromsø, even if connecting to the existing line to Narvik...
requires a lot of trackyard personnel. Although the tracks to Rovaniemi and to Kolari via Tornio actually separate at the Laurila cargo station north of Kemi...
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for long-distance buses. The railway station was built in 1886 when the Ostrobothnia railway line reached Oulu. The railway from the south to Oulu was electrified...
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between Helsinki and Kolari stop at Lapua. All trains arriving to and departing from the station use track 1. Media related to Lapua railway station at Wikimedia...
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in Finland to either Kirkenes in Norway or Murmansk in Russia, or from Kolari or Tornio in Finland to Narvik (via Sweden) or Tromsø in Norway. The Rovaniemi...
next stop in Oulu. Thereafter, the line splits with one line going up to Kolari and another line making stops at Rovaniemi and Kemijärvi. These trains also...
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