Hyvinkää railway station (, ) is located in

Hyvinkää Hyvinkää (; , ) is a town in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Hyvinkää is situated in the northern part of the Uusimaa region. The population of Hyvinkää is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in ...

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, approximately north of

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. It is situated between the stations of

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and

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. The station serves the , and

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lines between

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and the

terminus to the north. The

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has classified Hyvinkää railway station as a nationally significant built cultural environment.Hyvinkään rautatieasemat
(in Finnish) Nationally significant built cultural environments (''Valtakunnallisesti merkittävät rakennetut kulttuuriympäristöt) RKY'', Finnish Heritage Agency. Retrieved 2025-02-05.

History

Hyvinkää railway station was one of the first railway stations in Finland established on the country's first railway line in 1862. The plans for a station building were made by architect

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in 1860 but they were never used. Instead, a station building was completed at the Hyvinkää station in 1863 according to another plans made by Carl Albert Edelfelt, which were originally meant for the Riihimäki station. The station building completed in 1863 originally had

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influences but during later modifications the style of the building has changed into

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. Hyvinkää became a junction station in 1873, when a private railway was completed between Hyvinkää and Hanko. The Hyvinkää–Hanko railway line was acquired by

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already in 1875. A separate station had also been established at Hyvinkää on the Hyvinkää–Hanko line, with a station building designed by architect

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. This station building along with the other nearby railway buildings currently house the exhibitions of the

Finnish Railway Museum The Finnish Railway Museum () is a railway museum located in Hyvinkää, Finland. It was founded in Helsinki in 1898. The museum was moved to Hyvinkää in 1974. The museum is on the former station and yard site of the Hanko–Hyvinkää railw ...

that has operated there since 1974. In 1911, a railway line to Karkkila serving both passenger and freight traffic was fully completed. In 1949, a workshop for locomotives was established in the town. Passenger traffic on the Hyvinkää–Karkkila line ceased in 1961 followed by freight traffic in 1967. The railway line was torn down the same decade. Passenger traffic on the Hyvinkää–Hanko line ceased between Hyvinkää and

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stations in 1983 and since then there has only been freight traffic between the stations. A rail accident occurred on the northern side of the railway station on January 28, 1981, when a northbound express train collided with a truck carrying gravel on a temporary railway crossing. Five people were killed and 15 were injured in the accident.

Departure tracks

Hyvinkää railway station has five tracks, of which tracks 1, 4 and 5 have a platform. Track 5 is currently unused by the passenger trains that stop at the station. * Track 1 is used by commuter trains , and to Helsinki. * Track 4 is used by commuter trains , and to Riihimäki. Hyvinkää - Train Departures - Fintraffic
''junalahdot.fi''. Retrieved 2025-01-26.

References

External links

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Railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

Railway stations in Uusimaa Railway stations in Finland opened in 1862