Pasila station

Pasila station (Finnish: Pasilan rautatieasema, Swedish: Böle järnvägstation) is a railway station in Helsinki, Finland, approximately 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) north of Helsinki Central. It is the second busiest railway station in Finland, after Helsinki Central, and takes up a large part of the district of Pasila. The station was first opened in 1862. The current station opened in 2019.

Pasila
Böle
VR station
LocationRatapihantie 6, 00520 Helsinki
Bangårdsvägen 6, 00520 Helsingfors
Coordinates
Owned byFinnish Transport Agency
Platforms5
Connections
  Helsinki tram  7   9 
Construction
Structure typebridge station
Disabled access7
Other information
Fare zone A 
History
Previous namesFredriksberg (Swedish)
Traffic
Passengers (2005)54,300 daily
Services
Preceding station   VR commuter rail   Following station
Helsinki Central
Terminus
Y
toward Siuntio
X
toward Kirkkonummi
U
L
toward Kirkkonummi
E
toward Kauklahti
A
toward Leppävaara
I/P
toward Helsinki Central
D
Tikkurila
toward Riihimäki
R
T
toward Riihimäki
N
toward Kerava
K
toward Kerava
Z
Tikkurila
toward Lahti
Finnish Railways
Helsinki Central
Terminus
Helsinki-Tampere
Tikkurila
toward Tampere
Helsinki-Turku
toward Turku Harbour
Helsinki-Lahti
Tikkurila
toward Lahti

Pasila station is used to ease the congestion on the city's central station by serving as an alternate point of departure or arrival within Helsinki. All trains (except Allegro trains to Saint Petersburg since March 2016), both long-distance and local, travelling to and from Helsinki stop at Pasila.

Pasila station is one of two stations in Helsinki to serve long-distance traffic, the other being the central station. All other stations in Helsinki only serve local traffic. In terms of train lines, the only differences between Pasila station and the central station are the smaller number of tracks with platforms (10 compared to 19).

In 2012, the loading and unloading of cars onto trains was moved from Helsinki Central to a new car terminal built north of Pasila.

Pasila was under extensive renovation from 2015 to 2019.[1] The new station opened in October 2019.[2]

See also

  • Railway lines in Finland

References

  1. Santapakka, Sanna-Leena: Pasila myllätään uusiksi miljardilla - tältä se näyttää tulevaisuudessa, Ilta-Sanomat 6 February 2014. Accessed on 7 February 2014.
  2. "Pasilan Triplan ovet aukesivat – tällainen keskus on". iltasanomat.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2019-10-17.

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