helsingin rautatieasema

I've found some interesing pictures of the Helsinki Railway Station which I am glad to post here. I like this being theforst blogpost of '10 and I hope I will spend more time in Helsinki then in any other city as soon as possible.
I've visited Helsinki last summer with Polly. We spent two weeks living in Malminkartano which is a quartell of the north outbounds of Helsinki, you can get there with the LR trains running from the Central Railway Station. You can reach basically every place in Helsinki and every city of Finland from the station.
I am missing very much the city, I loved it while we were staying there, there are so many reasons of me being so sentimntal towards Helsinki. But I bet everyone can share my feelings if visits the city.

The station is used by approximately 200,000 passengers per day, making it Finland's most-visited building.
The main maintenance area for the Finnish Railways is located at Pasila, the first station out of Helsinki Central. The old steam locomotive roundhouse facility to the south of Pasila station still stands and is used for sundry functions. This roundhouse facility is pretty impressive to see and me and Polly were so happy that something so peculiar is still being used and kept alive nowadays.

The first railway station in Helsinki was built in 1860, as Finland's first railway between Helsinki and Hämeenlinna was opened.
It was desinged by the Swedish architect Carl Albert Edelfelt.


Soon the station turned out to be too small. A contest was organised in 1904 with the intention of producing plans for a new station. It was won by Eliel Saarinen. The new design was finished in 1909 and the station was opened in 1919.





I love this place <3