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Muurola railway station

Muurola
VR Group station
Muurola railway station
General information
LocationRatatie 5, 97140 Muurola
Coordinates66°22′14″N 25°22′31″E / 66.37056°N 25.37528°E / 66.37056; 25.37528
Owned byFinnish Transport Agency
Platforms2
Construction
Structure typeground station
History
Opened1909
Electrified2004
Services
Preceding station VR Group Following station
Tervola
towards Oulu
Oulu–Rovaniemi Rovaniemi
Terminus

The Muurola railway station, elevation 38 metres above sea level,[1] is located in the district of Muurola in the city of Rovaniemi in Lapland, Finland. The distance to the Helsinki Central railway station is 948.5 kilometres, measured via the Haapamäki and Seinäjoki railway station.

Services

All passenger trains between Oulu and Rovaniemi stop at Tervola, with the exception of Helsinki–Kemijärvi–Helsinki night train services PYO 265 and PYO 274 as well as the seasonal Rovaniemi–Helsinki night train service PYO 264.[2] The station does not serve cargo traffic. The traffic control is handled remotely from the Oulu railway station.

Departure tracks

Muurola railway station has two platform tracks. All passenger trains that stop at the station use track 1, with the exception of the seasonal Helsinki–Rovaniemi night train service PYO 267, which uses track 2 in order to give way for a regular daytime service bound to Helsinki which uses track 1 at that time.[3]

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