– a connecting urban railway line

28.5.2013

Welcome to the Ring Rail Line!

2 www.fta.fi/ringrail Ring Rail Line in brief • The Ring Rail Line runs from Vantaankoski station via the airport to . It will unify public transport in the metropolitan area and make it a functional whole. The building was commenced in 2009. The project will be completed in July 2015. • The Ring Rail Line is an important railway line crossing the metropolitan area. It is both a railway connection to the airport and an urban railway line, which provides an opportunity for 200,000 potential residents and 200,000 potential commuters to work to use public transport. • The realisation of the Ring Rail Line entails: • the railway and stations in connection with the railway, including arrangements for park-and-ride facilities and bus terminals; • Tikkurila office and retail centre/station bridge; • Road arrangements required for the Ring Rail Line, the largest of which is the development of the Hämeenlinna motorway in Kivistö

3 www.fta.fi/ringrail Five new stations

• During the first phase of Ring Rail Line project (2009– 2015) builds five new stations • Surface stations at Vehkala, Kivistö and Leinelä and the tunnel stations at and Airport. • In addition to the stations, the project includes three reservations for stations, which makes it possible to build a station at the location later on. • There are reservations for tunnel stations at Ruskeasanta and Viinikkala and for a surface station at Petas.

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5 www.fta.fi/ringrail The Ring Rail Line in figures

• length of railway line 18 kilometres, 8 kilometres of which in tunnel • new stations: Kivistö, Aviapolis, Airport, Leinelä and Vehkala. There are reservations for tunnel railway stations at Ruskeasanta and Viinikkala and for a surface station at Petas. • 45 bridges will be built • SM5 low-floor trains, i.e. Flirt trains, new rolling stock, running at 10-minute intervals in both directions • design speed 120 km/h • park-and-ride facilities in the initial phase: 700 cars and 840 bicycles • car parking spaces: Vantaankoski 220, Kivistö 250 (500), Leinelä 120 • At present about 850 persons are working on the Ring Rail Line project. • The costs, 675 million euros, are divided between the Finnish Transport Agency, the city of and Finavia. The project receives TENT-T funding from the EU.

6 www.fta.fi/ringrail The Ring Rail Line will be completed in summer 2015

• The Ring Rail Line will go into operation in July 2015. According to the original schedule, the Ring Rail Line was to be opened for traffic in 2014. • The schedule had to be revised due to the additional work caused by disintegration products of glycol found in the bedrock of the Airport. • Microbial growth and glycol were first observed under the eastern runway in autumn 2010. • Since the disintegration products of glycol shorten the life of construction materials, more durable materials than normally had to be used in the tunnel constructions. • The solution to the problem was to build an airtight twin tunnel inside the rock tunnel for a stretch of about 1,000 metres. • Similar insulation structures will also be built in the station facilities, vertical shafts and pedestrian walkways. The smell caused by the disintegration products will be eliminated by creating a vacuum in the space between the rock and the insulation structure.

7 www.fta.fi/ringrail The Ring Rail Line connects the traffic in the metropolitan area • The new stations of the Ring Rail Line and well-planned park-and-ride facilities will improve the traffic flow in the metropolitan area. • The Ring Rail Line  provides an option to take the train to new areas and connections. Daytime trains will run at 10-minute intervals in both directions  reduces motor vehicle traffic within Vantaa City • The starting point of the station arrangements is easy mobility, smooth feeder traffic and short changing times.  park-and-ride facilities in the immediate vicinity of the stations  bus terminals at the stations in Vantaankoski and Kivistö • The Ring Rail Line provides a direct railway connection to the airport  urban railway line to the international airport, the travel time to the airport is 30 minutes from the centre of Helsinki 8 www.fta.fi/ringrail The Ring Rail Line creates something new

• The Ring Rail Line is an urban railway line creating opportunities for new residential and job areas.  The Ring Rail creates opportunities for new residential areas in its area of influence. In the initial phase 5 new stations will be built along the railway.  It also creates thousands of new job opportunities. At present about 850 persons are working on the Ring Rail Line project.  The first underground railway stations in are built on the Ring Rail Line and its 8- kilometre twin tunnel for passenger traffic is unique.

9 www.fta.fi/ringrail The Ring Rail Line takes the environment into account

• The Ring Rail Line the environment into account and enlivens the cityscape.  The Ring Rail Line offers an ecological way of travelling.  In the planning and construction phases of the Ring Rail Line, all negative impact on the environment has been minimised.  An environmental art plan has been drawn up for the Ring Rail Line. Art will bring the stations to life.

10 www.fta.fi/ringrail Ring Rail Line, construction progress ½

• In 2012 the Ring Rail Line project progressed at full speed • The project as a whole crossed the halfway mark • Some of the milestones • Breakthrough of the Ring Rail Line tunnel • Completion of the spectacular railway bridge in Koivukylä • Completion of the MRU1 excavation contract (the railway section between Ring Road III and main road 3, Hämeenlinna motorway) • The largest contract of the Ring Rail Line started • The largest separate contract, the interior design of the train station at the airport, was started at the end of October 2012

11 www.fta.fi/ringrail Ring Rail Line, construction progress 2/2 • Earthwork contracts • MRU1 (From Vantaankoski to Ring Road III) is completed • MRU2 (Kivistö–Lapinkylä) underway • MRU3 contract enquiry in spring 2013 • MRU4 (Leinelä area) underway • The contract of joining the Ring Rail Line to the main railway line will be completed this summer • Building of stations • Changes at Vantaankoski are completed • Building of stations in Kivistö and Leinelä are underway • Interior contracts of Aviapolis and the Airport station as well as Ruskeasanta (reservation) and Viinikkala (reservation) are underway • The building of station in Vehkala will commence this year • The building of Tikkurila office and retail centre started in February 2013

12 www.fta.fi/ringrail Critical points for time shedule

13 www.fta.fi/ringrail Approval process

14 www.fta.fi/ringrail Glycol area

15 www.fta.fi/ringrail Cross-section of the profile

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Project Manager Juha Kansonen phone +358 (0)20 637 3633 Project Engineer Jari Jaakkola phone +358 (0)40 520 5171 [email protected]

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