| Jyväskylä VR station |
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| Address | Hannikaisenkatu 20, 40100 Jyväskylä | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lines | Turku–Joensuu Vaasa–Jyväskylä |
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| Structure | ground station | |||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | yes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | yes | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1897 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1980s | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | Finnish Transport Agency | |||||||||||||||||||
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The Jyväskylä railway station or Jyväskylä Travel Center (Finnish: Jyväskylän matkakeskus) is located in the city of Jyväskylä, Finland. The station is also the city's main bus terminal for long-distance buses.
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The original railway station was built in 1897, when the railway track from Haapamäki was built and Jyväskylä was added into the Finnish railway network. The track to Suolahti was built in 1898, and later extended to Äänekoski and Haapajärvi. Another line was opened to Pieksämäki in 1918. In 1978, a new track was opened between Jämsänkoski and Jyväskylä to ease traffic between Haapajärvi and Jyväskylä.
The station building was designed according to the style of the time, by the architect Bruno Granholm at the Finnish Railway Institute. The station building represents national romanticist wooden architecture. The station included the stationmaster's quarters and a storage house, and as a later addition the station restaurant designed by Thure Hellström (1916). In addition, two two-floor residential buildings with accompanying service buildings (1921) were built. The station building was expanded in 1923 and from 1968 to 1969.
The new travel centre was opened in 2002 next to the old station buildings, which were converted into business, service and residential use. The old station is part of the Finnish contract to preserve historically significant station areas, and is part of the inventory of culturally significant areas of the Finnish National Board of Antiquities.[1]
The travel centre has various services, including restaurants, small shops, a baby-care space and a passenger information system.
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