Here we are. I don't think I said anything that really contradicts your view anyway. www.railwaygazette.com/in-depth/fin...

Finnish politicians are talking about it Jon. They haven't all read your blog.

I don't see it because there is only one line from Sweden that might play a very limited role, and that's it.

I didn't say they are. Judicious use of would.

The game changer would be a Baltic tunnel connecting to Rail Baltica, but even then standard gauge trains from elsewhere in Europe would mostly just want to get as far as Helsinki.

No way I'll be using them vs the superior options already on offer in Italy

I almost feel I can't blame people for doing this

I mean, that was the original point, that the Fehmarn shouldn't repeat the Channel Tunnel's problem of not serving the locality as well as each end of the route. And that reservation-only services are quite restrictive in regard to that more local market.

I can envisage Flix being very interested in the route and running that kind of service.

It is well past the time for scrapping "what the papers say" on all TV "news" programs

On all broadcasting actually. They do not even pretend to be anything but propaganda

In that sense you make a good point. If it's a longer journey you're making Lübeck is a far more comfortable place to change trains than the chaos of Hamburg hbf.