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Finland invests in future rail link to Norwegian Sea

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Finnish government earmarks 20 million euros for initial track gauge study.

First phase will be between Kemi , Tornio , and the neighbouring Swedish town of Haparanda .

Severe cross-border rail traffic is not possible because Finnish tracks are nine centimetres wider than European standard tracks.

Finland now uses a 1,524 mm track gauge, which dates back to the nineteenth century .

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