Nikkilä railway station

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Nikkilä
Nickby
PMR station
General information
LocationAsemantie 04130
Nikkilä, Sipoo
Finland
Coordinates60°22′57″N 025°15′58″E / 60.38250°N 25.26611°E / 60.38250; 25.26611
Owned byFinnish Transport Infrastructure Agency
Operated byPorvoon Museorautatie
Line(s)Kerava–Porvoo railway
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Other information
Station codeNlä
ClassificationHalt[1]
History
Opened16 June 1874 (1874-06-16)
Location
Map

The Nikkilä railway station (Finnish: Nikkilän rautatieasema, Swedish: Nickby järnvägsstation) is located in the village and urban area of Nikkilä, in the municipality of Sipoo, Finland.

History

Nikkilä is one of the original stations of the private Kerava–Porvoo railway, opened in July 1874. It was established close to the Nikkilä manor, and due to its influence, a village started to form between the station and the road leading to the Sipoo church. In time, the station village and the Sipoo parish village fused together to form a single densely populated area. Upon the foundation of the Nikkilä psychiatric hospital in 1914, a

broad gauge station in the village. The private railway was nationalised in 1917.[2]

The Finnish State Railways ceased operating passenger trains on the Porvoo line in 1981, and freight services were discontinued in June 1990. This jeopardized the future of the line, but it ended up being preserved as a

railyard at Nikkilä was dismantled in 1997, and later in 2007, the station building, its warehouse and several other relevant buildings were transferred under the ownership of Senate Properties.[2]

In December 2018, as part of a pilot initiative by the

tram-trains as well as the Dm7 railbuses most commonly operated in the museum traffic between Kerava and Porvoo. The FTIA has expressed willingness to build more wooden platforms elsewhere in Finland, should the Nikkilä trial be successful.[3][4]

Future

The restarting of regular passenger transport by rail to and from Nikkilä as part of the Helsinki commuter rail network has been brought up and investigated on numerous occasions. The Helsinki region MAL 2019 plan (Finnish: Maankäyttö, asuminen ja liikenne; "land use, living and transport") states that extending services back into Nikkilä is possible by 2030, should the areas of the municipalities of Kerava and Sipoo develop as expected. In addition to Nikkilä, the old halts of Ahjo in Kerava and Talma in Sipoo would be reopened for use.[5]

References

  1. ISBN 978-952-317-744-4. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-951-593-214-3
    .
  3. ^ "Rautateiden puurakenteinen matkustajalaituri Nikkilän asemalle Sipooseen". Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency (in Finnish). 3 December 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  4. ISSN 0356-0600
    . Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  5. ^ Kivinen, Lasse (3 January 2021). "Lähijunat saattavat tulevaisuudessa kaartaa aivan uudelle reitille Keravalta – Se voi poikia tuhansia koteja ratojen varteen". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.


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