65 million) to reintroduce the Tornio–Haparanda train service, with the state fully financing it by the 2030s. The service will connect the twin border towns of Haparanda in Sweden and Tornio in Finland, where passenger trains previously ran but were suspended in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Currently, passengers can reach Haparanda and Tornio by train but must cross the border by car or on foot.
As part of the reintroduction, Haparanda's historic station will be restored. Finnish VR trains will stop at Tornio C station and terminate at Haparanda station. To change from Finnish VR trains to Swedish Norrtåg trains at Haparanda, passengers will walk through the station building between the Finnish and Swedish tracks.
The termination of Finnish trains in Haparanda will mark Finland's first time operating trains in other countries since it stopped running services to St. Petersburg, Russia in 2022 after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.