Helsinki Airport station

Helsinki Airport station (Finnish: Lentoaseman rautatieasema, Swedish: Flygplatsens järnvägsstation) is a Helsinki commuter rail station located at Helsinki Airport in Vantaa, Finland.

Lentoasema Flygplatsen Airport
Helsinki commuter rail station
General information
Location	Helsinki Airport Lentokenttä, Vantaa, Uusimaa Finland
Coordinates	60°18′58″N 024°58′08″E
Owned by	Finnish Transport Agency
Line(s)	Ring Rail Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Train operators	VR on behalf of HSL
Construction
Structure type	tunnel station
Depth	45 m (148 ft)
Other information
Station code	Len
Fare zone	C
History
Opened	1 July 2015 (2015-07-01)
Passengers
2019	4,406,584[1]
Services
Preceding station Helsinki commuter rail Following station Leinelä One-way operation I counterclockwise via Tikkurila Aviapolis towards Helsinki Aviapolis One-way operation P clockwise via Myyrmäki Leinelä towards Helsinki
Location

Helsinki Airport station is on the Ring Rail Line, located between the stations of Aviapolis and Leinelä. It is the world's northernmost underground railway station.

History

Although the Ring Rail Line opened on 1 July 2015, the airport railway station opened only on 10 July 2015, and only the Tietotie exit was accessible at this time. Because the exit was the one farther away from the terminal, a temporary shuttle bus was operated until the elevators for the passenger terminal-side exit were completed in December 2015.^[2] The escalators for the terminal-side exit were finally brought into use on 17 March 2016.^[3]

Future proposals

As part of ongoing plans for high-speed rail in Finland, Helsinki Airport station would be linked to Helsinki Central via a direct tunnel (a project known as Lentorata), surfacing at Kerava and continuing to Tampere Central, at an estimated cost of €5.5 billion.^[4]

Proposals exist to connect Kouvola railway station to Helsinki via a new 106 km line, Itärata (Eastrail), through Porvoo and Helsinki Airport station.^[5]