Pasila railway station

Pasila Böle
VR station
The station in August 2022
General information
Location	Ratapihantie 6, 00520 Helsinki Bangårdsvägen 6, 00520 Helsingfors
Owned by	Finnish Transport Agency
Line(s)	Helsinki–Riihimäki railway
Platforms	6
Tracks	11
Connections	Helsinki tram  2   7   9    Helsinki buses
Construction
Structure type	Bridge station
Accessible	7
Other information
Fare zone	A
History
Opened	1862
Rebuilt	1990 2019
Electrified	Yes
Previous names	Fredriksberg (Swedish)
Passengers
2019	16,702,694 (Helsinki commuter)[1]
Services Preceding station Helsinki commuter rail Following station Helsinki Terminus Y Huopalahti towards Siuntio X U Huopalahti towards Kirkkonummi L Ilmala towards Kirkkonummi E Huopalahti towards Kauklahti A Ilmala towards Leppävaara K Käpylä towards Kerava Helsinki One-way operation I counterclockwise via Tikkurila Käpylä towards Helsinki via Airport P clockwise via Myyrmäki Ilmala towards Helsinki via Airport Preceding station VR commuter rail Following station Helsinki Terminus T Käpylä towards Riihimäki D Tikkurila towards Riihimäki or Hämeenlinna R Tikkurila towards Riihimäki or Tampere Z Tikkurila towards Lahti or Kouvola Preceding station VR Group Following station Helsinki Terminus Helsinki–Riihimäki Tikkurila towards Riihimäki Helsinki–Turku Leppävaara towards Turku Harbour Helsinki–Kemijärvi (overnight service) Tikkurila towards Kemijärvi Helsinki–Kolari (overnight service) Tikkurila towards Kolari
Location Pasila The location of the station in Helsinki

Pasila station (Finnish: Pasilan rautatieasema, Swedish: Böle järnvägstation; previous Swedish name was Fredriksberg until 1990) is a railway station in Helsinki, Finland, approximately 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) north of Helsinki Central. It is the second busiest railway station in Finland, after Helsinki Central, and takes up a large part of the district of Pasila. The station was first opened in 1862 along the Finnish Main Line. The current (and fourth) station building opened in 2019.

Pasila station is used to ease the congestion on the city's central station by serving as an alternate point of departure or arrival within Helsinki. All trains, both long-distance and local, travelling to and from Helsinki stop at Pasila.

The Finnish Main Line going to the north (to Oulu via Tampere) and the Rantarata going to the west (to Turku) separate from each other at Pasila railway station. The Helsinki commuter trains in the direction of Riihimäki as well as all long-distance trains except those going to Turku use the Finnish Mainline, while the commuter trains towards Vantaankoski and Kirkkonummi, as well as long-distance trains to Turku use the Rantarata line.

Pasila station is one of two stations in Helsinki to serve long-distance traffic, the other being the central station. All other stations in Helsinki only serve local traffic. In terms of train lines, the only differences between Pasila station and the central station are the smaller number of tracks with platforms (11 compared to 19).

In 2012, the loading and unloading of cars onto trains was moved from Helsinki Central to a new car terminal built north of Pasila.

The station was under extensive renovation from 2015 to 2019.^[2] The new station opened on 17 October 2019.^[3]