Turku Central railway station

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Turku Central Station (Finnish Turun päärautatieasema, swedish Åbo central station, isolated Turku C) is the most important railway stations in Turku. It is located in the VII district in the downtown district ( Ratapihankatu 37).

History

The station was taken with the opening of the railway line from Turku to Tampere in 1876 into operation. Since the corresponding first consisted only connections to Tampere and Toijala, the station was initially of little importance. That changed in 1899 with the commissioning of the distance along the coastal region to Helsinki. The current station building was built from 1938 to designs by Martti Välikangas and Väinö Vähäkallio and completed in 1940. It is a simple functional building, which was completely renovated in 2006 to last in 2005. Near the railway station is a former engine shed, which has been used since 2011 as the Turku Exhibition and Convention Centre ( Logomo ).

Traffic

Today InterCity2 connections to Helsinki exist about Karis and Salo and fast trains to Pieksämäki about Tampere and Jyväskylä. Historically connections to Naantali and Uusikaupunki that were canceled due to low ridership in 1992.

Name

The original name of the station is Station Turku (Finnish Turun rautatieasma, swedish Åbo Järnvägsstation ). On 7 June 2010, the name was but - similar to the Helsinki railway station - Hauptbahnhof officially in Turku (Finnish Turun päärautatieasema, swedish Åbo central station) changed to stronger lift the train station from the other stations in the city. In the Finnish railway station is the next Tku abbreviated as C Turku.