Keisarin juna – Romanovit Suomen rautateillä

Keisarin juna – Romanovit Suomen rautateillä
Lea Bergström
Suomen rautatiemuseo, 1998

In this beautiful book we can be part of the emperors’ train journeys in Finland. We can admire the beautiful railway carriages and hear about adventures during the journeys.

The emperor could not use his own Russian emperor railway carriages on his journeys to Finland since there were no connection between the Russian and the Finnish railway lines until 1913. Because of this an own train had been arranged for the emperor for his journeys to Finland.

The emperor’s train consisted of six carriages and only three of them have been preserved and are now on the exhibition at the Finnish Railway Museum in Hyvinkää. There’s the emperor’s carriage, the empress’s carriage and a parlour carriage. All in all the Russian emperors have had almost one hundred carriages and these three in Hyvinkää are the only ones that are left.