The Ylistaro railway station ( fi, Ylistaron rautatieasema, sv, Ylistaro järnvägsstation) is a closed station located in the city of Seinäjoki (formerly the municipality of

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, in the village of Ylistaron asemanseutu. It was located along the Seinäjoki–Vaasa railway, and its neighboring stations at the time of closing were Seinäjoki in the east and

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in the west.

History

Ylistaro was opened under the name of Kaukola at the same time as the rest of the Seinäjoki–Vaasa line, on 29 September 1883. Just five years later, it was elevated from the status of a ''pysäkki'' to that of a class V station, and was renamed Ylistaro after the municipality in which it was located. Owing to the station being located quite far away from the surroundings of the Ylistaro Church, a village of its own grew around it. The two villages had merged to form one urban area by the end of the 1990s. Ylistaro was made an unmanned station in 1982 and its freight transport services were ceased in 1999, which prompted the dismantling of its rail yard in the year after. It remained as a passenger station until 20 June 2016, when it was closed along with

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and

. VR claims that the closures will allow travel times to be cut by an average of 6 minutes from

Vaasa Vaasa (; sv, Vasa, , Sweden ), in the years 1855–1917 as Nikolainkaupunki ( sv, Nikolajstad; literally meaning "city of Nicholas),

to Seinäjoki and 19 minutes from Vaasa to

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. The company then established a replacement bus service to serve the surroundings the closed stations. This made Tervajoki the only intermediate station used by the

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trains between Seinäjoki and Vaasa.

Architecture

The station building was constructed according to stock blueprints for the ''pysäkki'' stations on the Vaasa railway in 1881–1883. It was expanded from both ends in 1893 according to a design from

Bruno Granholm Bruno Ferdinand Granholm (May 14, 1857 in Myrskylä – September 29, 1930) was a Finnish architect. He served as the chief architect of Rautatiehallitus (The Railroad Board) between 1892 and 1926. Many of the station buildings he designed are ...

. The stations of the Vaasa line, presumed to have been designed by

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, marked a shift towards

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in style. The station still has a parking zone, as well as a low, long

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External links

Connecting buses on VR.fi

References

{{Seinäjoki Cityscape Seinäjoki Railway stations opened in 1883 Railway stations closed in 2016 Railway stations in South Ostrobothnia Defunct railway stations in Finland