It is located along the Riihimäki–Tampere railway, and its neighboring stations are Hämeenlinna in the north and Ryttylä in the south.

The Finnish Heritage Agency has classified Turenki railway station as a nationally significant built cultural environment.

Due to financial issues, the station building was eventually built out of wood instead.

[5] Turenki started to develop into an industrial centre, when a sugar factory was founded in the village in 1940.

[4] The worst rail accident in Finnish history thus far[6][7][8] happened near the Turenki station on March 12, 1940, when a troop train headed to Viipuri collided with a northbound freight train due to a signalling error leading up to 39 lives lost and 69 injured.