Pori railway station (, ) is a

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Pori Pori (; ; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Satakunta. It is located on the west coast of the country, on the Gulf of Bothnia. The population of Pori is approximately , while the Pori sub-region, sub-region has a population of a ...

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. It has VR service to

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

and to

Port of Pori Port of Pori () is a complex of three harbours. It is by the Gulf of Bothnia in Pori, Finland. The port authority of Pori was established in 1780. Today the Port of Pori is a corporation owned by the city. Port of Pori has liner service to se ...

. Since Pori is a terminal passenger station, the traffic is quite moderate. Pori railway station serves approximately 225,000 people annually.

History

Tampere–Pori railway The Tampere–Pori railway is a railway running between the cities of Tampere and Pori in Finland. The line carries passenger traffic from Tampere to Pori via five railway stations and continues as a freight line to the Port of Pori. Tampere–Po ...

and the first railway station in Pori were opened in 1895. This station was destroyed in the 1918

Finnish Civil War The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between Whites (Finland), White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Red Finland) during the country's transition fr ...

and replaced a year later with a new one. The present railway station was constructed 1938 in a different location. Functionalism-style building was designed by Finnish architect

Thure Hellström Thure Adolf Hellström (30 May 1880 – 23 December 1946) was a Finnish architect working on railroad stations for Rautatiehallitus (The Railroad Board) with Bruno Granholm. Hellström was born in Koivisto. He designed wooden railway station bui ...

. was opened along with the new station in 1938. It was connecting Pori with

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but the traffic ceased in 1985.

Departure tracks

Pori railway station has two platform tracks. Trains departing the station primarily use track 1.Pori - Train Departures - Fintraffic
''junalahdot.fi''. Retrieved 2025-01-27.

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(in Finnish) Railway stations in Satakunta Buildings and structures in Pori Art Deco architecture in Finland Art Deco railway stations Railway stations in Finland opened in 1895 {{Finland-railstation-stub