World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
Finland
Season 2 Episode 6 of 7
A 600-mile journey through Finland - from Helsinki in the south to Kemijarvi in Finnish Lapland. The line whisks passengers through the thickest of forests, past vast frozen lakes 63 times the size of Lake Windermere and to station stops where time has stood still. As the train enters the Arctic Circle, it calls at Rovaniemi, a place destroyed by German soldiers at the end of the Second World War. Now the town has been re-built, famously in the shape of a reindeer, serving as the official home of Santa Claus. Narrated by Bill Nighy
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys airs on 5SELECT at 6:00 PM, Monday 24 March. (Subtitles.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
Foreign Countries ➝ Expeditions
Nature ➝ Animals ➝ Environment
Bill Nighy
Narrator
Peter Gauvain
Producer
Clare Fisher
Series Producer
Tom Porter
Executive Producer