Questa potrebbe essere una domanda stupida ma quando controllo la mappa, sembra davvero strana perché, dobbiamo attraversare diverse città a Kouvola per poi tornare a sud a Kotka.
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Questa potrebbe essere una domanda stupida ma quando controllo la mappa, sembra davvero strana perché, dobbiamo attraversare diverse città a Kouvola per poi tornare a sud a Kotka.
https://i.redd.it/gzpmohygtmef1.jpeg
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We don’t want the nasty neighbour to have an express railway to Helsinki.
Kotka has 50k inhabitants which is nowhere near enough to warrant a direct train line. Cargo-wise they’ve been served by a busy port which the train line to Kouvola is also originally built to serve (although commuter train O also serves on that stretch IIRC).
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Did you know that there is a village called Kotka in Estonia almost directly south of the Finnish Kotka?
And no, I don’t have an answer to your question, I just wanted to share 😀
why would they make separate direct line to helsinki from small city like kotka?
East-West travel is generally way more difficult than North-South because when the rails were built, we didn’t want the neighbour to be able to move quickly on our rails.
At the times railways were built, they were used to transport goods (mainly lumber and sawmill products) from inland to nearby harbors. The cargo traffic along the coast moved via ship, hence no coastal rail.
>we need to cross several cities to Kouvola to then go back south to Kotka
No we don’t. Buses exist.
Did that route last year and switching from the high speed train to the old train where the doors are just swinging open and closed and everything looked 50 years old and I was the only one on the whole train was…. An experience