The Masku railway station (Finnish: Maskun rautatieasema, Swedish: Masku järnvägsstation) is a closed station located in the municipality of Masku, Finland. It is located along the Turku–Uusikaupunki railway; the nearest station with passenger services is Turku in the southwest.[1]
Masku | |||||
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| VR station | |||||
 Masku in 2008 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Paloasemantie, 21250 Masku Finland | ||||
| Coordinates | 60°34′02.663″N 022°05′35.055″E / 60.56740639°N 22.09307083°E | ||||
| Owned by | Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency | ||||
| Operated by | VR Group | ||||
| Tracks | Turku–Uusikaupunki | ||||
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| Station code | Mku | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1 September 1923 | ||||
| Closed | 1 January 1993 | ||||
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History
editMasku is one of the original stations of the Uusikaupunki railway, having been opened as a laiturivaihde – a staffed halt with a rail yard containing at least one switch – with the rest of the line on 1 September 1923. It was subservient to the Raisio station, and was only staffed by a single worker, who was accommodated with a sauna, barn as well as a hectare's worth of farmland. The station also hosted a post office until 1956, after which it moved into a building owned by the Maskun Säästöpankki bank.[2]
Masku grew greatly in the post-war era, no less in part due to evacuees settling there from the parts of Karelia ceded to the Soviet Union;[3] in 1947, 30% of the people living in the municipality had emigrated there from elsewhere. However, in 1967, Masku became an unstaffed station on 1 June 1967, and its rail yard was dismantled in 1978, making it a halt. The halt was closed altogether on 1 January 1993 upon the cessation of passenger services on the Uusikaupunki line.[2]
References
edit- ^ Iltanen, Jussi (2010). Radan varrella: Suomen rautatieliikennepaikat (in Finnish). Karttakeskus. ISBN 978-951-593-214-3.
- ^ a b Nummelin, Markku (2018). Turun–Naantalin–Uudenkaupungin rautatie (in Finnish). Kustantaja Laaksonen. ISBN 978-952-7260-09-8.
- ^ Silvola, Joona (2021). Uudenkaupungin radan matkustajajunaliikenteen oletetut vaikutukset radanvarsikunnissa (PDF) (in Finnish). p. 32.