Pasila railway station

Pasila station (Finnish: Pasilan rautatieasema, Swedish: Böle järnvägstation; previous Swedish name was Fredriksberg until 1990) is a railway station in Helsinki, Finland, approximately 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) north of Helsinki Central.

It is the second busiest railway station in Finland, after Helsinki Central, and takes up a large part of the district of Pasila.

The Finnish Main Line going to the north (to Oulu via Tampere) and the Rantarata going to the west (to Turku) separate from each other at Pasila railway station.

It has been built on top of pillars above the tracks, and is integrally connected to the Mall of Tripla shopping centre next to it.

The Pasilansilta traffic bridge connecting the districts of Itä-Pasila and Länsi-Pasila passes to the south of the Pasila railway station and the shopping centre.

The first side tracks in Pasila were built in the late 1870s when traffic in the city centre and the Sörnäinen harbour increased.

[7] An area of small residential buildings, called Puu-Pasila ("wooden Pasila"), was formed near the station in the early 20th century.

[5] The basis for the plan to expand the railway yard was a suggestion by the German engineering bureau C.O.

[5] At the time, the Pasila station was primarily an exchange station, where passengers could move from trains arriving to Helsinki via the Rantarata line to trains departing from Helsinki to the north on the Finnish Main Line, or the other way around.

Eliel Saarinen proposed in his Pro Helsingfors plan in 1918 to move the Helsinki Central Station into Pasila.

[5] The new station building was built in 1990 on top of pillars above the tracks,[7] and it also hosted business spaces and restaurants.

New business, office and residential buildings were built in place of the former cargo railway yard, such as the Mall of Tripla shopping centre.

The first station building in Pasila in the 1970s. In the background is the Pasila agency building.
The station building used from 1990 to 2017, dismantled in summer 2017.
Train carriages at the railway yard in 1995.
A view of Keski-Pasila in 2014, four years after the dismantling of the railway yard. Veturitie , the new main street of Pasila, has since been built in place of the Pasila lower yard.
The platform area.
A public transport terminal at the Pasilansilta bridge.