It is located along the Karis–Hanko railway, and its neighboring stations are Lappohja in the west and Ekenäs in the east.

As the Karis–Hanko railway line was completed, there was a blast furnace, established already in the 17th century, active in the village of Skogby until 1904.

[4] A sawmill was established near the location of the Skogby station in 1889 and it had a network of narrow-gauge railway tracks.

[4] When the Hanko Peninsula was leased to the Soviet Union in 1940, Skogby acted as the terminus of the railway line.

The train traffic to Skogby was restarted in early 1942 and further to Hanko in February of the same year.