Recent years have seen extensive improvements to track and rolling stock.
Trains are modern and comfortable and sleeping cars spacious and quiet.
Over one hundred long-distance trains are in service daily. For those passengers who want to go by land to Sweden there is a bus connection from Kemi via Tornio to Haparanda on the Swedish side. Passenger to Russia are transported by train. The rail gauge is the same in Finland and in Russia but the trains stop at the border to change locomotives, since Finland and Russia have different electrical systems. High-standard InterCity trains offer excellent timetables on the most popular sections of line.