Protected building

Ratamestarin talo Leppäkoskella, Ida Aalberg -museo

Janakkala

Why visit

The trackmaster's dwelling at Leppäkoski is one of the oldest railway buildings in our country and the only one of its kind left — a house where cultural history lives in an everyday timber wall.

Look for: Remember that this house was the childhood home of the actress Ida Aalberg — it lies a little south of the station building.

About this site

The track superintendent's residential house in Leppäkoski in Janakkala, situated slightly south of the station building, is one of the oldest railway buildings in the country. It is also the only remaining representative of its type. Furthermore, the building is connected to the country's cultural history, as it is the childhood home of the actress Ida Aalberg.

Official description (Museovirasto), machine-translated from Finnish