Masku railway station

60°34′02.663″N 022°05′35.055″E / 60.56740639°N 22.09307083°E / 60.56740639; 22.09307083Owned byFinnish Transport Infrastructure AgencyOperated byVR GroupTracksTurku–UusikaupunkiOther informationStation codeMkuHistoryOpened1 September 1923 (1923-09-01)Closed1 January 1993 (1993-01-01)

Location

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]

History

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]

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