The Lahti railway station is located in the city of Lahti

Lahti

Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

 in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

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The station was designed by architect Thure Hellström

Thure Hellström

Thure Hellström was a Swedish-Finn architect working on railroad stations for Rautatiehallitus with Bruno Granholm...

 from the VR Group

VR Group

VR or VR Group is a state-owned railway company in Finland. Formerly known as Suomen Valtion Rautatiet until 1922 and Valtionrautatiet / Statsjärnvägarna until 1995...

 and built in 1935. Because of the depression

Depression (economics)

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 in the 1930s, the station did not get a third floor, neither did it get a tower, as the Tampere railway station

Tampere railway station

The Tampere railway station is a functionalist building in Tampere, Finland, designed by Eero Seppälä and Otto Flodin, completed in 1936. The 36-metre clock tower was later added because the Finnish railway bureau required it...

 did. The plan of the station is rectangular

Rectangle

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 and it has two floors. It is built of dark brown brick

Brick

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In 2006, the station was renovated. The ticket office was moved from the east side of the corridor to the west side, and the storage lockers and R-Kioski

R-Kioski

R-Kioski is a chain of convenience stores owned by Rautakirja Oyj. Presently, there are 723 R-Kiosk shops across Finland. They sell a range of products, such as books, magazines, tobacco, ready meals, snacks, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks such as beer and cider, excluding wine and spirits...

 were removed from there, so that the ticket office is on the right-hand side when entering the station. The station restaurant

Restaurant

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 is still in its original place on the east side of the station. The station platforms and the underpass tunnel of the west side of Vesijärvenkatu were also renovated. The renovation intended to make the station more efficient, when the more direct track from Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

 to Lahti was opened on 1 September 2006.

Stationmaster's quarters

Near the Lahti railway station is the stationmaster's quarters, which is considered to be a culturally significant building in the Päijät-Häme region around Lahti.

External links

• Lahti railway station. VR Group.
• Topparoikka ry, Lahti railway enthusiasts (in Finnish)