Leppävaara station ( fi, Leppävaaran rautatieasema, sv, Alberga järnvägsstation) is a railway station located in Leppävaara, a district of 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 ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. It is located about to the northwest of Helsinki Central.

History

Near the construction site of 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 ...

line was the financial building of the Alberga Manor. In 1905, the municipality of Espoo sought permission to build a railway stop in place of the manor, but this permission was denied. However, suburban settlement rapidly started appearing near the manor, so it was necessary to build a railway stop.Iltanen, Jussi: ''Radan varrella: Suomen rautatieliikennepaikat'' (2nd edition), p. 24. Helsinki: Finnish Map Centre 2010. Leppävaara station was built in 1903 and the first station building in 1907. In 1920, a tightly-populated community was founded from the suburban area according to a

zoning Zoning is a method of urban planning in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into areas called zones, each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones. Zones may be defined for a si ...

plan made by

Lars Sonck Lars Eliel Sonck (10 August 1870 – 14 March 1956) was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, St Michael's Church, ahead of many esta ...

. The suburban settlement also spread to the north of the station, where the Harakka area was founded, now known as the district of Lintuvaara. Traffic arrangements at the Leppävaara railway station were changed in 1965, when a rapidly trafficked local road was drawn over the tracks via an overpass bridge; the

Ring I Ring I (pronounced "ring one", fi, Kehä I, sv, Ring I) is the busiest road in Finland, carrying up to 113,000 vehicles per day. It is the innermost of the three beltways in the Greater Helsinki region, numbered as regional route 101 and ru ...

beltway currently runs at the site. The station area started to become a population centre, where a modern Maxi-Market store was opened in 1972. Cargo traffic at the Leppävaara railway station was discontinued in 1975, but passenger traffic was improved by building an underpass tunnel in the following year. The greatest change occurred in autumn 1999 when the station building was torn down to build a new railroad track in Leppävaara and a new terminal. The significance of the Leppävaara railway station has increased in the 21st century as many bus lines previously going to

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...

have been directed to Leppävaara to serve as feeder traffic for local commuter trains. The

Sello Sello ( Finnish for ''cello'') is a shopping mall in the Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland. The mall contains more than 170 shops and services including a concert hall and a library. The largest stores in the shopping center are Prisma, K-Citymarket ...

shopping centre has brought more traffic to the station since late 2002, the latter part having been completed in autumn 2005. The shopping centre is located right next to Leppävaara station.

Connections

All local trains to

Siuntio Siuntio (; sv, Sjundeå) is a municipality of Finland located in the Uusimaa region in the province of Southern Finland. Its neighboring municipalities are Ingå to the west, Kirkkonummi, to the east, Lohja to the north-west, and Vihti to the no ...

(Y and X trains),

Kirkkonummi Kirkkonummi (; sv, Kyrkslätt, , Sweden ) is a municipality of inhabitants () in southern Finland. The literal meaning of the words "''Kirkkonummi''" and "''Kyrkslätt''" in English is "church heath". Geography The municipality is located just ...

(U train) 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 ...

(E train) stop at Leppävaara, in addition to all

Pendolino Pendolino (from Italian ''pendolo'' "pendulum", and ''-ino,'' a diminutive suffix) is an Italian family of tilting trains used in Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the UK, the US, ...

and

InterCity InterCity (commonly abbreviated ''IC'' on timetables and tickets) is the classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to regional, local, or commuter trains) generally call at m ...

services from

Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

and Turku Satama (Turku Harbour). Long-distance trains between Helsinki and Turku have stopped at Leppävaara since 25 October 2015, before this they stopped at Espoo railway station in

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 ...

. The construction of the new track in 2002 caused part of the train schedules and stops to be rearranged, and introduced the A train, stopping at all stations.

Service

Tracks

There are four tracks at the Leppävaara railway station.Leppävaara
junatiedot.fi. Accessed on 6 December 2022. * Track 1 is for commuter trains E, U, X and Y towards

and for long-distance trains to

. * Track 2 is for commuter trains E, U, X and Y as well as long-distance trains towards Helsinki. * Track 3 is for the commuter train A to Helsinki at 06:26 on weekday mornings. * Track 4 is for commuter trains A and L towards Helsinki and for the commuter train L towards Kirkkonummi.

References

External links

Leppävaara Railway stations in Espoo Railway stations opened in 1903 {{Finland-railstation-stub