Kemi railway station
Kemi railway station (in Finnish: Kemin rautatieasema) is located in the town of Kemi in the Lapland Province of Finland. It is operated by VR. The distance to the Helsinki Central railway station, via Haapamäki and Oulu stations is 858.3 kilometres.
Kemi | ||||||||||||||||
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| VR Group station | ||||||||||||||||
 Kemi railway station | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Rautatienkatu 3, 94100 Kemi | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 65.737227°N 24.573798°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Finnish Transport Agency | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 11 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | ground station | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1903 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 2003 | |||||||||||||||
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| Passengers | 185 000 [2008] | |||||||||||||||
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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.
Although the tracks to Rovaniemi and to Kolari via Tornio actually separate at the Laurila cargo station north of Kemi, Kemi is an important junction for train traffic. From the Lautiosaari switch north of Kemi, there is also a side track to the Elijärvi mine.
Trackyards
The Kemi station has a large trackyard, divided into personnel train tracks and a cargo trackyard. The trackyard was completely renovated and electrified from 2001 to 2003.
The station also has a side track to the Ajos harbour. On this side track are the trackyards of Veitsiluoto, Rivi and Ajos.