Karis railway station

Karis
Karjaa
VR station
Station statistics
Address Alingsåsgatan 37, 10300 Karis
Lines Y, long-distance and Hanko local trains
Structure ground station
Platforms 3
Other information
Accessible
Owned by Finnish Transport Agency

Karis (Swedish) or Karjaa (Finnish) is a railway station in the town of Raseborg (Raasepori) in the Uusimaa region, Finland. The station is located along the track between Helsinki and Turku, and serves as a connection point between three different tracks: the main track between Helsinki and Turku, a branch track to the city of Hanko, and a former privately-owned track between Karis and Hyvinkää, currently largely disused.

The Karis railway station is located 87 km west from the Helsinki Central railway station, and all passenger trains between Helsinki and Turku stop there. The station is also the westernmost terminus of Helsinki commuter rail. It also serves cargo traffic.

History

The Karis railway station was originally founded to serve a privately-owned track between Hanko and Hyvinkää, and taken into use in 1873. After a few years, the privately-owned track had only made a loss, and the station was transferred over to the Finnish state.

The station became a crossing point in 1899, when the track between Karis and Turku was opened. The track between Karis and Pasila was opened in 1903.

See also

Preceding station   VR commuter rail   Following station
Y Terminus
Preceding station   Finnish Railways   Following station
Helsinki-Turku
Terminus Karis-Hanko
Dragsvik
toward Hanko