The Finnish Railway company VR offers train tickets at discounted prices for the teams participating in the Jukola relay. The Jukola competition center is only 2,5 kilometres (1,5 miles) from the Lapua railway station, so you can even take a walk from the railway station to the competition center if you like.

To book train tickets, please contact the VR sales by May 15th at the latest, tel. +358 307 32002 or yritysmyynti.seinajoki@vr.fi. Please note that the discount prices only apply to bookings for the whole team.<yritysmyynti.seinajoki@vr.fi>

The tickets will be sent to the team after the payment has been made to the Virkiä Jukola bank account at: Lapuan Osuuspankki 474710-2206072. Please make the sum payable to Virkiä-Jukola 2007.

Return ticket prices to the Virkiä Jukola during June 16-17, 2007:

Helsinki-Lapua-Helsinki 40 € per person
Turku-Lapua-Turku 40 € per person
Lahti-Lapua-Lahti 40 € per person
Tampere-Lapua-Tampere 25 € per person.

If you are traveling from other stations or from northern Finland, please contact the VR sales, tel. +358 307 32002 or yritysmyynti.seinajoki@vr.fi.

The Virkiä-Jukola train schedules:

To Lapua on Sat June 16:
- IC 47 Helsinki 10.06 - Tampere 12.00 - Lapua appr. 13.45.
- P909 Turku harbour 8.36 - S45 Tampere 11.00 - Lapua appr.12.25

From Lapua on Sun June 17:
- IC 54 Lapua 16.12 - Tampere 17.59, Helsinki 19.52, Turku harbour 20.28 OR
- IC 50 Lapua 13.12 - Tampere 14.53, Helsinki 16.52, Turku harbour 17.22

Welcome aboard on the Jukola trains!

Picture: VR