Ilmala railway station ( fi, Ilmalan rautatieasema, sv, Ilmala järnvägsstation) is a railway station on the VR commuter rail network located in northern
Helsinki
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,
Finland
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. It is approximately north of
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 ...
. The
VR Group
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maintains a depot north of the station.
The station was opened in 1967 to serve the newly built television studios of the Finnish public broadcaster
Yle
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and commercial broadcaster
MTV3
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.
Ilmala depot
North of the Ilmala station, in
Pohjois-Pasila
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Posti Group, the Finnish mail corporation, has its head office in Pohjois-Pasila.Huopalahti and
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sorting centre (''Postinkeskus'' or ''Posti lajittelukeskus'') and related offices.
Near the tracks, VR has built a 100,000 m³ depot to accumulate excess snow which cannot be eliminated by the snow-melting field in
Pasila
Pasila (; sv, Böle, ) is a part of Helsinki, Finland, that is both a central-northern neighbourhood and district, bordering the areas of Alppila to the south, the Central Park ( Keskuspuisto) to the west, and Vallila to the east.
Pasila is ...
. The depot can also melt snow with heat from the return water of the buildings' heating which uses
district heating
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provided by
Helen
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.
Helsinki operating point
Ilmala is one part of the split railway operating point of Helsinki, the other parts of which include the passenger stations of
Helsinki
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,
Pasila
Pasila (; sv, Böle, ) is a part of Helsinki, Finland, that is both a central-northern neighbourhood and district, bordering the areas of Alppila to the south, the Central Park ( Keskuspuisto) to the west, and Vallila to the east.
Pasila is ...
,
Käpylä
Käpylä (; sv, Kottby) is a neighbourhood of Helsinki with 7,600 inhabitants. Administratively speaking, Käpylä is a part of the Vanhakaupunki district.
It is located between Kumpula, Oulunkylä and Koskela. Käpylä has a terminus for ...
and
Oulunkylä
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It has been inhabited since the 13th century. Earlier an independent munic ...
, the Pasila freight and car loading stations, the Ilmala depot and the Helsinki Kivihaka crossover.
Nearby landmarks
* ''Pöllölaakso'' (headquarters of
MTV3
MTV3 ( fi, MTV Kolme, sv, MTV Tre) is a Finnish commercial television station. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Yle TV1 (from Yle) took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV (literally "Advertisemen ...
until late-2022)
*
Yle
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