THE PAST

The Majesty Prescript

         "This Railway should demonstrate its direct importance for the trade between Russia and Finland, particularly being significant for St. Petersburg, this city even today is the major customer of the produce of Finnish industry and agriculture.v Russian export from St. Petersburg to Finland is larger than from any other place."
\An abstract from the Resolution of the Seim of Finland on the beginning of the construction of a railway between Helsingfors and St. Petersburg, March 1867.\

        "Considering local conditions for Finnish industry, agriculture and trade Russian Empire is the best place for Finnish export and appropriate and correct railway should greatly promote this export, and also the people who suffered from poor yields desperately need help, and after the Finnish Seim adopted the Resolution to build the Railway from Rikhiimyaki Station (Helsingfors- Tavastgusskaya Railway) to our capital WE gave Our permission to the Government to borrow 18 million marks for this purpose and WE authorise and order to start the construction of the railway as soon as the money is received. At the same time WE command Our Finnish Seim to be concerned with sourcing a loan to make the above said construction possible and WE allocate 10 million Finnish marks for the project..."