Buy ticket
Back

Winter time begins – changes in timetables

Finland transitions to winter time on Sunday 30 October with clocks moving at 04:00 a.m. from summer time to standard time, 03:00 a.m. The turning of the clocks will affect a some train services in the night between Saturday and Sunday.

Long-distance traffic

Long-distance night trains will stop to wait for about an hour, so that their next scheduled departure time according to the normal time.

See the HSL website for HSL’s schedules, Opens in a new tab.

More articles

The latest articles

Impacts of the Tampere railway station area project on train traffic

The renovation of Tampere’s railway station area will cause changes to train traffic during weekends in spring 2025. Day trains will be replaced by buses between Tampere and Seinäjoki, Tampere and Pori and Tampere and Parkano. The track work will also cause changes and cancellations in night train traffic.

The latest articles

We are standardizing service fees for ticket sales starting from March 3rd

From March 3rd, we will implement a more uniform service fee for ticket sales. The changes will affect our ticket vending machines, commuter tickets sold at R-kioskis, and our phone service. We will also reinstate service fees for ticket sales points. The service fees for ticket sales points were temporarily removed due to a system update in 2023. No service fee will be added to tickets purchased from vr.fi or the VR Matkalla app. 

The latest articles

Night trains for the winter released April 2

We're releasing night train trips for the period from 14 Dec to 28 March 2026. The season includes Christmas, New Year as well as the winter holiday weeks.