Kemi railway station
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Kemi railway station | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Rautatienkatu 3, 94100 Kemi | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 65°44′14″N 24°34′26″E / 65.737227°N 24.573798°E | ||||||||||||||
| System | VR Group station | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency | ||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 11 | ||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | ground station | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1903 | ||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 2003 | ||||||||||||||
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| 2008 | 185,000 | ||||||||||||||
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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.