Kemi railway station

Kemi
VR Group station
Kemi railway station
General information
LocationRautatienkatu 3, 94100 Kemi
Coordinates65°44′14″N 24°34′26″E / 65.737227°N 24.573798°E / 65.737227; 24.573798
Owned byFinnish Transport Agency
Platforms3
Tracks11
Construction
Structure typeground station
History
Opened1903
Electrified2003
Passengers
185 000 [2008]
Services
Preceding station VR Group Following station
Oulu
Terminus
Oulu–Rovaniemi Tervola
towards Rovaniemi
Terminus Kemi–Kolari Ylitornio
towards Kolari

Kemi railway station (Finnish: Kemin rautatieasema) is located in the town of Kemi in the Lapland Region of Finland. It is operated by VR. The distance to the Helsinki Central railway station, via Haapamäki and Oulu stations is 858.3 kilometres.

The station lies between the Kemi centre and Finnish national road 4, near the town centre services. All passenger trains stop at the station, and the station has a ticket office, a waiting room and a Junamaatti ticket vending machine. Kemi also has a lot of cargo traffic.

Kemi no longer has train traffic operators, instead the traffic is controlled remotely from Oulu. Track switching in cargo traffic requires a lot of trackyard personnel.


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