Kemi
VR Group station
Kemi railway station
General information
Location	Rautatienkatu 3, 94100 Kemi
Coordinates	65°44′14″N24°34′26″E / 65.737227°N 24.573798°E /65.737227; 24.573798
Owned by	Finnish Transport Agency
Platforms	3
Tracks	11
Construction
Structure type	ground station
History
Opened	1903
Electrified	2003
Passengers
185 000 [2008]
Services
Preceding station VR Group Following station Oulu Terminus Oulu–Rovaniemi Tervola towardsRovaniemi Terminus Kemi–Kolari Ylitornio towardsKolari

Kemi railway station (Finnish:Kemin rautatieasema) is located in the town ofKemi in theLapland Region ofFinland. It is operated byVR. The distance to theHelsinki Central railway station, viaHaapamäki andOulu stations is 858.3 kilometres.

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 fromOulu. Track switching in cargo traffic requires a lot of trackyard personnel.

Although the tracks toRovaniemi and toKolari viaTornio 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 theElijärvi mine.

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  Restaurant
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  Platform area

Lautiosaari railway junction (standard abbreviation: Li) is arailway junction in the city ofKemi inFinland. The junction is located approximately two kilometers north from Kemi railway station onOulu–Tornio main line where theElijärvi branch line diverges from the main line. The junction is named after nearbyLautiosaarivillage withinKeminmaa municipality.

The junction consists of threerailway signals and two interlocked and correspondingrailway switches, forming a set ofcatch points protecting the main line. The junction was opened for traffic in 1985, and it was in active use until 2005, when theElijärvi mine chosetrucks overtrains for its ore transportation needs between Elijärvi andTornio.

The Kemi railway 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 has three platform tracks. All passenger trains that stop at the station normally use track 1.^[1]

The station also has a side track to thePort of Kemi in the district of Ajos. On this side track are the trackyards of Veitsiluoto, Rivi and Ajos.

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