Protected building

Karjaan rautatieasema-alue

Raasepori

Why visit

Karjaa's broad station area splits, through its steep level changes and the railway and its bridge, into several distinct parts. As a junction station it has an unusually varied range of buildings — and the whole town grew up with the railway.

Look for: Seek out the engine shed with its water towers and the smithy on the rail yard. The station building itself is lined by a row of limes, and a railway workers' housing area sits at the block's corner.

About this site

Karjaa's extensive station area is divided by large differences in level, the railway and the bridges crossing it into several sections that differ from each other in character. On one side is the station building with its lime tree rows. On the other side of the railway was a large freight traffic area, from which the goods warehouses were demolished in 2006.

At the corner of Allingåsgatan and Edeninkatu is a railway workers' residential area, next to which on the marshalling yard are a locomotive shed with its water towers and smithy. Although the buildings from the Hanko railway era have been demolished, the station complex is exceptionally diverse due to the junction station's character. Karjaa city has grown up with the railway.

Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish