Masku | |||||
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Masku in 2008
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General information | |||||
Location | Paloasemantie, 21250 Masku Finland | ||||
Coordinates | 60°34′02.663″N 022°05′35.055″E / 60.56740639°N 22.09307083°E / 60.56740639; 22.09307083 | ||||
Owned by | Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency | ||||
Operated by | VR Group | ||||
Tracks | Turku–Uusikaupunki | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | Mku | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1 September 1923 (1923-09-01) | ||||
Closed | 1 January 1993 (1993-01-01) | ||||
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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 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]
Railway stations in the region of Southwest Finland, Finland
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Helsinki–Turku |
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Turku–Toijala |
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Turku–Uusikaupunki |
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Raisio–Naantali |
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Names in italics indicate planned or closed stations. |