Cross-border railway problems are annoyingly universal

At the time of writing, my #CrossBorderRail project has taken me to 419 international railway lines since 13 June 2022.One of the very first borders I went to - on 19 June 2022 - was Haparanda 🇸🇪 - Tornio 🇫🇮 (OpenRailwayMap) at the very northern end of the Baltic Sea.The border bridge at Haparanda - Tornio, photographed from the Swedish sideLittle did I know that now, four years on, we still do not know when passenger trains will finally cross this border bridge.For here, like in dozens of other places I have been to in this massive project, solving even the simplest cross-border railway problems turns into a drawn out saga.In 2022 the station at Haparanda, Swedish side, had already been renovated and the standard gauge track from Boden electrified. But nothing had yet happened to the broad gauge tracks from Tornio in Finland:No works done to broad gauge tracks at Haparanda in 2022A quick recap as to what has, and hasn't, happened.Planning to electrify the cross border section and run…