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Finland's Trains: One Day in 60 Seconds

Transportation · Animated Map · 60 seconds

Every train moving across Finland on a single real day, 24 hours compressed into one minute — long-distance, commuter and cargo, each a glowing dot tracing the country's rail network.

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The story

This is one real day — 10 June 2026 — of every train moving across Finland, with 24 hours compressed into 60 seconds. Each dot is a live train pulled from the national rail network's open data feed, colour-coded by type — long-distance, commuter and cargo — and leaving a fading trail as it runs.

Watch the rhythm of a country wake up: pre-dawn cargo runs, the morning commuter surge around Helsinki, long-distance lines threading north, then the quiet of the small hours. A clock and a live "trains running" counter track the pulse of the entire network at once.

Source: Fintraffic Digitraffic Railway API (rata.digitraffic.fi), CC BY 4.0. Train positions interpolated between GPS pings; one day (2026-06-10) compressed 1,440× into 60 seconds.