Kupittaa railway station ( fi, Kupittaan rautatieasema, sv, Kuppis järnvägsstation) is located in the

Kupittaa Kupittaa ( sv, Kuppis) is a district in Turku, Finland. It is located on the eastern side of the city's centre, around the Kupittaa Park, the first landscaped park in a Finnish city. The district serves as a centre for recreation and business. ...

district of

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. The station is located about three kilometres from the

Turku Central railway station Turku Central Station (, ) is a railway station in the VII District of Turku, Finland. It has VR services to Helsinki and towards Joensuu (most terminate in Tampere or Pieksämäki). The station serves approximately a million passengers annually ...

in the immediate vicinity of the

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. All trains between

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and Turku stop at Kupittaa. The station is part of the Turku traffic point, and traffic control is handled from Turku Central railway station. The station has

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connections to Turku internal lines 32, 42 and 58 and regional line 110. The old station building at Kupittaa dates back to 1914 and is located about a hundred metres to the northwest of the current station. The building was designed by John Stolpe. The previous name of the station, used until 1946, was Turku Itäinen (Swedish: ''Åbo Östra'').Iltanen, Jussi: ''Radan varrella: Suomen rautatieliikennepaikat'' (2nd edition), p. 42. Helsinki: Finnish Map Centre, 2010. All trains between Helsinki and Turku stop at Kupittaa. The station has a middle platform with tracks on either side. Track 1 is for trains to Helsinki and track 2 is for trains to Turku.

History

The Kupittaa railway station was built an area that was already tightly populated; the

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is located only about a kilometre to the west from the station. To the east of the station was the populated area of Nummi, which used to belong to the municipality of

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but was annexed to Turku in 1939. In the 1920s cargo tracks were built from the station to the log sawmill, to the brick factory and to the concrete foundry. In 1949, a side track was built near the station to the Itäharju industrial area built between the World Wars, but it fell out of use as transport moved from trains to cars, and in 1993 it was dismantled to make way for the new Turku-Helsinki highway. The Kupittaa station was demoted to a line transport office under the control of the Turku Central Station in 1963. Passenger traffic at the Kupittaa railway station ended after commuter traffic on the Rantarata line closed down in 1979. There were no passenger trains stopping at the station from 26 May 1979 to 17 August 1986, or from 15 August 1987 to 28 May 1988. After that day all passenger trains on the Rantarata line started stopping at Kupittaa again. The new station building was built in 1995. In the early 1990s, the station was supposed to be named Data Stop after the technology centre Data City located next to it, but in the end the station kept its old name. The old wooden station building at Kupittaa, built in 1914, fell out of use of the VR Group when the current station was built in late 1994. The new station was inaugurated on 12 January 1995. The valuable wooden building was not dismantled, and it has since served as a restaurant among other uses. Along with the construction of the new station building at Kupittaa, the entire railway track was moved about seven metres lower than the old railway track. The new station was built above the track. A new bridge was built over the track to replace the old

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. A new lining of the

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was built along the track. Various new buildings have been built near the station, hosting business spaces and premises for universities and the

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Services

Ticket sales at the station were closed on 2 August 2014, but the station has two automated ticket sales machines inside and one outside. A hotel was opened next to the station in July 2020. The hotel is named Original Sokos Hotel Kupittaa and its front lobby has direct access to the station.

Double track

The double track between Turku Central Station and Kupittaa station, as well as the renovation of the Turku railway yard, is taking place from 2021 to 2024. Because of construction work on the tracks, starting from 15 August 2022, Kupittaa station will serve as the terminus of the Rantarata line for two years.Nurmi, Teemu
Oletko menossa junalla Turkuun? – Pian et enää pääse Helsingistä Turun päärautatieasemalle asti
''Vantaan Sanomat'' 28 April 2022. Accessed on 20 June 2022.

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History

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Double track

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