Lahti railway station

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The Lahti railway station.

The Lahti railway station (Finnish: Lahden rautatieasema, Swedish language: Lahtis järnvägstation) is located in the city of Lahti in Finland.

The station was designed by architect Thure Hellström from the VR Group and built in 1935. Because of the depression in the 1930s, the station did not get a third floor, neither did it get a tower, as the Tampere railway station did. The plan of the station is rectangular and it has two floors. It is built of dark brown brick.

The festival train to the direct track six minutes before leaving Lahti, on 1 September 2006.

In 2006, the station was renovated. The ticket office was moved from the east side of the corridor to the west side, and the storage lockers and R-Kioski were removed from there, so that the ticket office is on the right-hand side when entering the station. The station restaurant is still in its original place on the east side of the station. The station platforms and the underpass tunnel of the west side of Vesijärvenkatu were also renovated. The renovation intended to make the station more efficient, when the more direct track from Helsinki to Lahti was opened on 1 September 2006.

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The first festival train to Mäntsälä right before leaving Lahti, on 1 September 2006.

Near the Lahti railway station is the stationmaster's quarters, which is considered to be a culturally significant building in the Päijät-Häme region around Lahti.

[edit] External links

• Etelä-Suomen Sanomat: The Lahti railway station is nearly complete, 20 July 2006
• Etelä-Suomen Sanomat: The Lahti railway station is being renovated, 14 July 2006
• Uusi Lahti: Moving men in VR - Olavi Hämäläinen (90) worked on 34 stations
• Finnish Museum Bureau: MARY Päijät-Häme region inventory, pictures, Henrik Wager, 12 January 2005
• Topparoikka: news