Pohjois-Haaga railway station

Pohjois-Haaga railway station (Finnish: Pohjois-Haagan rautatieasema, Swedish: Norra Haga järnvägsstation) is a railway station on the Helsinki commuter rail network located in northern Helsinki, Finland. It is located about eight kilometres to the north/northwest of Helsinki Central railway station.

Pohjois-Haaga Norra Haga
VR station
Location	Hopeatie 2, 00440 Helsinki
Coordinates	60°13′49″N 24°53′00″E
Owned by	Finnish Transport Agency
Line(s)	Ring Rail Line
Platforms	2 (side platforms)
Tracks	2
Connections	Helsinki buses 31, 32, 40, 51, 54, 553K
Construction
Structure type	Elevated station
Disabled access	4
Other information
Fare zone	B
History
Opened	1 June 1975
Electrified	Yes
Passengers
2016	3080 daily[1]
Services
Preceding station Helsinki commuter rail Following station Kannelmäki towards Helsinki via Airport I Huopalahti One-way operation Huopalahti One-way operation P Kannelmäki towards Helsinki via Airport

The Pohjois-Haaga station is located in the district of Lassila, between the stations of Huopalahti and Kannelmäki. It is the first station after the split between the Vantaankoski track and the rantarata track towards Turku.

Near the station, from underneath the track on the bridge, is a light traffic route, which can be used to follow the train tracks all the way to the city centre. On the other hand, the tracks cannot be followed to the north towards Kannelmäki, because after Pohjois-Haaga, the tracks continue on a narrow bridge. Sometimes, pedestrians use the bridge anyway to get to the other side of Kehä I. This has caused dangerous situations.

The Helsinki City Transport takes responsibility of the station.

History

During the planning phases of the Helsinki Metro in the 1960s, it was planned to build a line to the east of what became the Martinlaakso line; a station was planned to be placed in the very center of the district of Pohjois-Haaga. However, as the decision to replace this metro line with a local traffic railway under the ownership of the Finnish State Railways was made, the station was instead built in a sparsely populated area between Lassila and Pohjois-Haaga. Construction of housing and offices around the station took off only after the line was opened for traffic.[2]

The Martinlaakso line was opened for regular service in June 1975. The Pohjois-Haaga station building was funded by and came to be owned by the city of Helsinki, and was completed in October 1975, four months after the line itself; until then, the ticket office operated in a temporary building. The station building is made of rebar and brick with a facade of tile, and the final ticket office was situated on the ground level, from where passengers ascend to the side platforms via a stairwell.[2]

As with numerous other stations only serving local traffic, ticket sales at Pohjois-Haaga were ceased in June 2004.[2]

Services

Pohjois-Haaga is served by lines P and I on the HSL commuter rail network.

External links

• Media related to Pohjois-Haaga railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Train departures and arrivals at Pohjois-Haaga on Finrail

References

1. "HSL:n nousijamäärät" (in Finnish). Helsinki Regional Transport Authority. 2016. (under "Pohjois-Haagan asema")
2. Iltanen, Jussi. Radan varrella: Suomen rautatieliikennepaikat (in Finnish). ISBN 978-951-593-214-3.