Espoo railway station ( fi, Espoon rautatieasema, sv, Esbo järnvägstation) is a railway station in the district of

Espoon keskus Espoon keskus ( Finnish for ''Espoo Centre'', sv, Esbo centrum) is the central district of Espoo, the second biggest city of Finland and the administrative centre with the city hall of Espoo. The areas of Kiltakallio, Kirkkojärvi, Saarniraiv ...

in the city of

Espoo Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in the Republic of Finland. It is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordering the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi ...

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. It is between the stations of Tuomarila and

Kauklahti Kauklahti (Finnish) or Köklax (Swedish, alternative spelling ''Köklaks'', old Finnish ''Kaukalaksi'') is a district of Espoo, in the Greater Helsinki area of Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of F ...

, about from the

Helsinki Central railway station Helsinki Central Station ( fi, Helsingin päärautatieasema, sv, Helsingfors centralstation) ( HEC) is the main station for commuter rail and long-distance trains departing from Helsinki, Finland. The station is used by approximately 400,000 peo ...

. Before October 25, 2015, Espoo was the station in Espoo city that also served long-distance trains, but since then

Leppävaara railway station Leppävaara station ( fi, Leppävaaran rautatieasema, sv, Alberga järnvägsstation) is a railway station located in Leppävaara, a district of the city of Espoo in Finland. It is located about to the northwest of Helsinki Central. History Ne ...

has had that role in Espoo. The old Espoo station was built in 1903 according to plans by the architect

Bruno Granholm Bruno Ferdinand Granholm (May 14, 1857 in Myrskylä – September 29, 1930) was a Finnish architect. He served as the chief architect of Rautatiehallitus (The Railroad Board) between 1892 and 1926. Many of the station buildings he designed are ...

. The station was expanded in 1909. The station building has many ornamental details. The station acted as the Espoo station building from 1903 to 1981, and the

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was also moved to the station as soon as it was finished, when the offices of the stationmaster and post officer were combined. The Espoo station is on the bridge over the tracks, and the post office is to the south of the tracks.

Connections

Bus routes: 118, 531, 542, 241(V), 244(K), 245 (winter only), 245A (summer only), 246(K, T, KT), 134, 136, 200, 213, 235N, 243(K), 565, 566, 168, 169

The station environment

The old station building has been present for over a century, but the tracks on both sides of it have changed. The

tunnel A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, and enclosed except for the entrance and exit, commonly at each end. A pipeline is not a tunnel, though some recent tunnels have used immersed tube cons ...

through the city rock wasn't there originally; instead the tracks went past the rock on the north side at Läntinen jokitie. Also the cut face on the east side of the rock was made later. A road, ''Vanha ratavalli'', goes along the old route of the tracks. At both places, traces of the tracks' old route could be seen in the ground as late as winter 2004.

Platforms

Platform one serves trains towards Kirkkonummi. On the other side of the platform is also a bus stop and a taxi station. The middle platform is divided into platforms two and three. Platform two serves trains from Kirkkonummi to Helsinki. Platforms three and four used to serve E trains to Helsinki but are currently unused after E trains' terminus was moved further to Kauklahti. On the other side of platform four is the Espoo market square and a turning point for buses going northwards, and also the Espoontori shopping centre. An extension of the Leppävaara city railway has been proposed to reach the Espoo station to be able to increase local train traffic on the ''

rantarata Rantarata (the Coastal Railway, Swedish: Kustbanan), is a railway running between the Helsinki Central railway station and the Turku railway station in Finland. Its first segment, linking Turku to Karis, was commissioned in 1895, and work began th ...

'' (Helsinki-Turku) tracks between Helsinki and Espoo.

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