Talk:Helsinki–Tallinn Tunnel

Rail Baltica and Proposed Helsinki - Tallinn Railway Tunnel

It is nice that an article has been made fast of this proposed railway tunnel to Wikipedia, but with existing railway network in Baltic states with Russian 1520 mm gauge kills all hope from this project. Also the current railway linking Riga and Tallinn via Tartu is out of the question if the main aim is to provide also fast passenger train service from Tallinn to Berlin. Why should a passenger travel 441 km in minimum time of six hours in trains restricted to maximum speed of 120 kph in single track line? This route can be used by freight trains but in passenger train service in future 16 hours travelling time from Tallinn to Berlin is the limit. The railway tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn must be build to provide passenger train service between Helsinki and Tallinn. The minimum demand is one train in one one hour both directions, maximum travelling time from Helsiki - Pasila to Tallinn Balti jaam 45 minutes. Without this railway tunnel an average Finnish customer in food shop pays 10 per cent more of nearly each food imported from Southern and Middle Europe compared with sea connection which are now used. When reading from morning paper that 4.000 heavy lorries are running through small Polish town Lomza using its narrow streets between 05.00 and 24.00 this means three lorries in every available minute. There is a need of minumum 24 container trains per day for 360 days in year only to Finland alone if one third of rubber wheel transport is transfered to rails. New rebuilt electrified double track railway of standard European 1435 mm gauge is needed via Pärnu to Riga and further to Vilnius and Suwalki and direct new railway from Suwalki to Berlin. The Warsaw bend is not at all needed. Have the planners any brains at all? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.114.193.3 (talk) 19:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Rail Baltica should choose 1520mm gauge lines to Paris Nord, France, instead of 1435mm gauge lines to Tallin, Estonia. In addition, EU should fund French rail networks, not Baltic States. Population in Baltic States is shrinking, while population in France is increasing.

• Spain/Portugal: gauge conversion from 1668mm to 1435mm
• Baltic States: 1435mm gauge line (3kV DC) to Kaunas, Lithuania
• France: loading gauge enlargement
• CIS states, Baltic States, Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, Slovakia, Austria: 1520mm gauge lines (25kV 50Hz AC) to Paris, France
• Finland, Estonia: Helsinki-Tallin tunnel should be built at 1520mm gauge (double-track, 25kV 50Hz AC)

180.196.226.152 (talk) 03:36, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Hyperloop

Is this "hyperloop" really worth mentioning here? I think that it is a very theoretical concept that is far away from being in use anywhere.--Bk1 168 (talk) 23:56, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Name of this article: use NPOV hyphen, not "to".

In the style of Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg railway, surely this article should be "Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel", The "to" suggests a precedence (FROM the greater TO the less) and is generally deprecated in Wikipedia. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 14:19, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

I agree. Moved the page, it is now renamed to "Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel". Blomsterhagens (talk) 19:30, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

References to "Talsinki" should be removed.

The used term is not "common", as described in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.220.166.69 (talk) 09:22, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Estonian Ministry of Transport and Communications doesn't exist

The Estonian Ministry of Transport and Communications is mentioned as a partner in a study, but as far as I can tell, that doesn't exist. There is an Estonian Transport Administration, which is parented by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, but there is no Transport and Communications ministry. Should I/someone change it? --Ära Śävûlø (talk) 01:02, 14 February 2024 (UTC)