Lappila railway station

Lappila
VR station
General information
Location	Lappilanraitti 3, 16670 Lappila, Kärkölä Finland
Coordinates	60°50′56″N 025°10′26″E
Owned by	Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency
Operated by	VR Group
Line(s)	Riihimäki–Lahti railway
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	Laa
Classification	Halt [1]
History
Opened	1 November 1869 (1869-11-01)
Passengers
2008	2,000 [2]
Services
Preceding station VR commuter rail Following station Mommila towards Riihimäki G Järvelä towards Lahti
Route map to Kouvola to Heinola to Loviisa  167  Uudenmaankatu 58.8 Lahti  140  Helsingintie to Salpausselkä 56.1 Hennala  296  Ala-Okeroistentie 48.1 Hakosilta Helsinki 45.8 Tommola 44.4 Herrala  2954  Herralantie  295  Mäntsäläntie 32.2 Järvelä  1431  Sulkavantie 26.3 Lappila 23.2 Jutila  2951  Lammintie 20.0 Mommila 15.4 Oitti  1471  Oitintie 14.8 Hausjärvi freight  290  Hikiäntie 8.3 Hikiä 7.9 Kekomäki 0.0 Riihimäki to Helsinki
Location

The Lappila railway station (Finnish: Lappilan rautatieasema, Swedish: Lappila järnvägsstation) is located in Kärkölä, Finland, in the village and urban area of Lappila. It is located along the Riihimäki–Lahti line, and its neighboring stations are Mommila in the west and Järvelä in the east.

History

The latter station building in Lappila

When work on the Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg railway began in 1868, Lappila was one of the headquarters for workers along with Riihimäki. The nearby village of Tillola became site for the third field hospital founded for the railway workforce, after those in Oitti and Lahti. Industry began to settle in Lappila after the arrival of the railway; facilities founded include two sawmills (1897, 1908) as well as brick factories and a furniture workshop. After the last sawmill closed in 1959, Lappila's population number took a downturn after peaking in 1960 at over 700. Lappila was home to 283 inhabitants in 2018.[3][4]

On 18 October 1961, the Railway Administration made the decision to purchase a set of 800 concrete sleepers from abroad, the first of their kind in Finland; in July 1962, they were installed on the section of track between Lappila and Järvelä. The trials were successful, and on 12 June 1963, the first batch of concrete sleepers from Finnish manufacturers was ordered.[5]

Lappila became an unmanned station in 1976, its freight traffic services were discontinued in 1981, and its railyard was dismantled in 1987, making it a halt. The Jutila crossover, located approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the west from Lappila, was opened on 1 July 1997.[4]

Architecture

The original station building in Lappila was built according to stock plans for class IV stations on the Riihimäki–St. Petersburg line, designed by Knut Nylander.[a] Construction was completed in 1869; it was later expanded in two phases in 1876 and 1900, with both extensions being designed by Bruno Granholm; the plans were also used for the expansions of the Hikiä station in 1883 and 1904. As per a railyard diagram dating to 1873, the Lappila station at the time also included a warehouse right next to the station building, as well as a roundhouse at the western end of the railyard.[6]

The original station building was dismantled and replaced by a smaller barracks-style building in 1967.[6] The station building was transferred to the ownership of Senate Properties in 2007.[4]

Services

Main article: Helsinki commuter rail § Riihimäki−Lahti Line

Lappila is an intermediate station on commuter rail line G on the route Riihimäki–Lahti. Westbound trains towards Riihimäki stop at track 1 and eastbound ones towards Lahti use track 2. Prior to the opening of the Kerava-Lahti railway line, Lappila was also served by the unnamed regional trains on the route Helsinki–Riihimäki–Lahti–Kouvola–Kotka Harbour.

External links

• Train departures and arrivals at Lappila on Fintraffic

Notes

1. The other stations constructed as such on the line, listed in order from Riihimäki to St. Petersburg–Finlyandsky, include Hikiä, Herrala, Vesijärvi, Kausala, Kymi (Koria), Taavetti, Säiniö (Verkhne-Cherkasovo), Galitzina (Leypyasuo) and Terijoki (Zelenogorsk).[6]

References

1. Railway Network Statement 2021 (PDF). Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency. 18 June 2020. p. 96. ISBN 978-952-317-744-4. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
2. Henkilöliikennepaikkojen kehittämisohjelma (PDF). Helsinki: Finnish Infrastructure Transport Agency. 2010. ISBN 978-952-255-511-3.
3. Urban settlements by population and population density, 2018. Statistics Finland.
4. Iltanen, Jussi. Radan varrella: Suomen rautatieliikennepaikat (in Finnish). ISBN 978-951-593-214-3.
5. Pölhö, Eljas; et al. (1987). Valtionrautatiet 1962–1987 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Finnish Railway Administration. p. 125.
6. Roivanen, Antti. "Pietarin radan ensimmäiset liikennepaikat". Resiina (in Finnish). 3/2020. Suomen rautatiehistoriallinen seura & Museorautatieyhdistys. ISSN 0356-0600.