The Railway Union’s (RAU) train drivers’ protest will halt commuter train services on Friday. “The drivers will not come to work on Friday,” Helsinki Region Transport Authority (HSL) noted in a statement.
Reasons for the strike, according to the union, include that the government-owned railway company VR’s staff policy has broken the collective agreement by forcing duties to be completed on free time, and duties have also been “assigned in a discriminatory way.”
Services are expected to resume on Saturday morning around 5:00.
VR, however, noted on Friday morning that the following long-distance trains will run as usual:
IC 5 Helsinki-Joensuu at 13:19
IC 6 Joensuu-Helsinki at 9:02
S 7 Helsinki-Joensuu at 15:19
IC 8 Joensuu-Helsinki at 12:13
IC 11 Helsinki-Joensuu at 18:29
IC 27 Tampere-Oulu at 16:02
IC 51 Helsinki-Oulu at 16:24
IC 62 Kajaani-Helsinki at 3:40
IC 65 Helsinki-Kuopio at 11:19
IC 68 Kuopio-Helsinki at 14:20
IC 73 Helsinki-Kajaani at 19:19
IC 104 Imatra-Helsinki at 6:02
IC 111 Helsinki-Imatra at 17:19
IC 466 Pori-Tampere at 7:15
IC 477 Tampere-Pori at 6:03
IC 710 Oulu-Kuopio at 18:12
IC 713 Kuopio-Oulu at 12:39
IC 716 Oulu-Kuopio at 10:03
IC 904 Tampere-Turku at 5:50
H 420 Jyväskylä-Haapamäki-Tampere at 5:05
Also, all regional trains will run as usual between Karjaa–Hanko, Parikkala–Savonlinna, Joensuu–Pieksämäki, Joensuu–Nurmes and Ylivieska–Iisalmi.
Between Lahti–Kouvola and Kouvola–Kotka port all trains will run as usual, except Z-train 235 at 16:35 Helsinki-Kouvola.
