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Ilmala
Helsinki commuter rail station
Ilmala railway station
General information
Location	Postintaival, 00230 Helsinki Postrutten, 00230 Helsingfors
Coordinates	60°12′28″N024°55′16″E / 60.20778°N 24.92111°E /60.20778; 24.92111
Owned by	Finnish Transport Agency
Platforms	1
Connections	bus lines 23, 57, 59, 63tram lines 9, 9N
Construction
Structure type	ground station
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	A
History
Opened	25 May 1967; 57 years ago (1967-05-25)
Passengers
2019	1,431,210[1]
Services
Preceding station Helsinki commuter rail Following station Pasila towardsHelsinki A Huopalahti towardsLeppävaara L Huopalahti towardsKirkkonummi Huopalahti One-way operation I counterclockwise viaTikkurila Pasila towardsHelsinki Pasila One-way operation P clockwise viaMyyrmäki Huopalahti towardsHelsinki via Airport

Ilmala railway station (Finnish:Ilmalan rautatieasema,Swedish:Ilmala järnvägsstation) is a railway station on theVR commuter rail network located in northernHelsinki,Finland. It is approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north ofHelsinki Central railway station. TheVR Group maintainsa depot north of the station.

The station was opened in 1967 to serve the newly built television studios of the Finnish public broadcasterYle and commercial broadcasterMTV3.

North of the Ilmala station, inPohjois-Pasila between the two branches of the railway which go respectively toHuopalahti andTikkurila, a large space is used forthe VR train and bus depot (Ilmalan varikko) and forPostisorting centre (Postinkeskus orPosti lajittelukeskus) and related offices.

Near the tracks, VR has built a 100,000 m³ depot to accumulate excess snow which cannot be eliminated by the snow-melting field inPasila. The depot can alsomelt snow with heat from the return water of the buildings' heating which usesdistrict heating provided byHelen.^[2]

Ilmala is one part of the split railway operating point of Helsinki, the other parts of which include the passenger stations ofHelsinki,Pasila,Käpylä andOulunkylä, the Pasila freight and car loading stations, the Ilmala depot and the Helsinki Kivihaka crossover.^[3]

Ilmala railway station has four tracks, of which two (3, 4) have platforms for passenger trains.

• Track 3 is used byA,L andI trains to Helsinki.
• Track 4 is used byA trains to Leppävaara,L to Kirkkonummi andP trains to the Helsinki Airport.

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• Pöllölaakso (headquarters ofMTV3 until late-2022)
• Yle Mediatalo(fi: Mediatalo) and Studiotalo(fi: Studiotalo)

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