Lilleküla railway station ( et, Lilleküla raudteepeatus) is a railway station in the Kristiine district of

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

, the capital of

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. The station is situated between the subdistricts

Lilleküla Lilleküla () is a subdistrict of the district of Kristiine in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 24,939 (). On the eastern side of Lilleküla there's a train station "Lilleküla" on the Elron's western route. One of the ...

and Uus Maailm, and close to the Estonian national football home ground

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and Kristiine Keskus, one of the biggest and most popular shopping centres in Tallinn. The station is served by all commuter trains heading to Keila,

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, Turba and

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. It consists of two 130 metre platforms. It is located about 2 km south of Balti jaam, it is the second stop on Elron's western route after the terminus Tallinn's main railway station Balti jaam. Although the Tallinn–

railway already existed in 1870, a station on the site was opened in 1928. The line from Tallinn to back then a nearby town Nõmme (as far as Pääsküla) was electrified already in 1924. At first the station bore the name "Ameerika". There was also a little wooden station building which was demolished in 1998. In 2012 the old platforms were replaced with new lower ones and a pedestrian tunnel was built.

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Official website
of Elron – the national passenger

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of Estonia responsible for all domestic

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