Train trips in passenger traffic rises 13% in Q2

A total of 12,2 million trips in passenger traffic were travelled on Finnish railways in the second quarter of 2021, which is 13 per cent more than in the corresponding quarter of last year, according to Statistics Finland.

The number of passenger kilometres in train traffic totalled 586 million. Passenger kilometres increased by 63 per cent from the corresponding quarter of the year before.

In January to June 2021, a total of 22.8 million trips were made in passenger traffic, which was 23 per cent fewer than one year earlier.

In January to June 2021, the number of passenger-kilometres in train traffic totalled 1,061 million kilometres, which was 27 per cent lower than one year before.