The Hankasalmi railway station ( fi, Hankasalmen rautatieasema, sv, Hankasalmi järnvägsstation) is located in the village and
urban area
An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities ...
of
Hankasalmen asemanseutu in the municipality of
Hankasalmi
Hankasalmi is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population density is
.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Han ...
,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. It is located along the
Jyväskylä–Pieksämäki railway,
and its neighboring stations are
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capital of ...
in the west and
Pieksämäki
Pieksämäki () is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southern Savonia region, about north of Mikkeli, east of Jyväskylä and south of Kuopio. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. Th ...
in the east.
The
Finnish Heritage Agency has proclaimed the Hankasalmi station a
nationally significant built cultural environment.
History
The Jyväskylä–Pieksämäki railway cuts through the municipality of Hankasalmi about away from its parish village, and hence the station lies far away on the intersection between the railway and the road connecting Hankasalmi to
Kangasniemi
Kangasniemi is a municipality in the Southern Savonia region, Finland. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Kangasniemi is located on the Finnish national road 13, north ...
.
However, the location was seen as advantageous in that lake
Kuuhankavesi lies just away from the station, greating a crossing between the railway and waterborne transport.
Work on the Jyväskylä–Pieksämäki railway began in 1913 and it was opened for traffic on 1 June 1918, making Hankasalmi one of its original stations.
Architecture
The Hankasalmi station was built according to stock blueprints for class V stations on the Jyväskylä–Pieksämäki line, being designed by
Thure Hellström. The
mansard roof is a distinctive feature of the design that was also used for the Kallislahti station on the
Huutokoski–Savonlinna railway.
The station building has been well preserved, as have the other buildings on its premises, which include a warehouse as well as two residential buildings.
Service
Hankasalmi is served by all InterCity and Pendolino trains that use the Jyväskylä–Pieksämäki line as part of their route. The station does not have a VR service point nor a ticket vending machine, and has low, inaccessible high platforms.
A
siding connects the station's
rail yard
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or u ...
to the
Versowood Hankasalmi sawmill. Starting from the 2010s, the frequency of
timber
Lumber is wood that has been processed into dimensional lumber, including beams and planks or boards, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, w ...
shipments to the sawmill by rail has decreased, though as of 2019, the connection is known to be maintained and used on an irregular basis.
External links
*
Train departures and arrivals at Hankasalmion Finrail
References
{{Railway stations in Central Finland
Hankasalmi
Railway stations opened in 1918
Railway stations in Central Finland