Lahti railway station

The Lahti railway station (Finnish: Lahden rautatieasema, Swedish: Lahtis järnvägsstation) is located in the city of Lahti in Finland.

Lahti
VR station
Lahti railway station.
Coordinates	60°58′37″N 25°39′27″E
Owned by	Finnish Transport Agency
Line(s)	Z
Construction
Structure type	ground station
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	880,000[1]
Services
Preceding station   Helsinki commuter rail   Following station Mäntsälä toward Helsinki Central Z Terminus Finnish Railways Mäntsälä (express) toward Helsinki Central Helsinki-Lahti Terminus Herrala (local) toward Helsinki Central Terminus Lahti-Kouvola Kouvola (express) Terminus Nastola (local) toward Kouvola

The station was designed by architect Thure Hellström from the VR Group and built in 1935. Because of the depression in the 1930s, the station did not get a third floor, neither did it get a tower, as the Tampere railway station did. The plan of the station is rectangular and it has two floors. It is built of dark brown brick.

The first festival train to Mäntsälä right before leaving Lahti, on 1 September 2006.

The Allegro high-speed train connects Lahti to Saint Petersburg.

In 2006, the station was renovated. The ticket office was moved from the east side of the corridor to the west side, and the storage lockers and R-kioski were removed from there, so that the ticket office is on the right-hand side when entering the station. The station restaurant is still in its original place on the east side of the station. The station platforms and the underpass tunnel of the west side of Vesijärvenkatu were also renovated. The renovation intended to make the station more efficient, when the more direct track from Helsinki to Lahti was opened on 1 September 2006.