Kalaranta railway station

Kalaranta
Closed VR station
Location	Rantakatu, 23500 Uusikaupunki Finland
Coordinates	60°47′56″N 021°24′40″E / 60.79889°N 21.41111°E / 60.79889; 21.41111Coordinates: 60°47′56″N 021°24′40″E / 60.79889°N 21.41111°E / 60.79889; 21.41111
Owned by	Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency
Line(s)
Tracks	1
Train operators	VR Group
Other information
Station code	Kt
History
Opened	1 January 1933 (1933-01-01)
Closed	1 January 1993 (1993-01-01)
Location

The Kalaranta railway station (Finnish: Kalarannan rautatieasema, Swedish: Kalaranta järnvägsstation) is a closed station located in the town of Uusikaupunki, Finland. It was located along the , and functioned as the terminus of passenger services on the line from 1939 to 1999. The nearest station with passenger services is Turku in the southwest.^[1]

History[]

Kalaranta was founded as a halt on 1 January 1939 to act as the new terminus on the Uusikaupunki line, due to the town's main station being located far from its center. A small waiting room was built to accommodate passengers. Initially, the halt was located on the western side of the Siltakatu bridge; in 1956, the halt was rebuilt and repositioned to the bridge's east, with a larger station building being constructed.^[2]

Kalaranta was promoted to a manned halt on 1 June 1962, and ticket sales services were initiated. The volume of sales exceeded that of the Uusikaupunki station: for example, in 1963, 1,700 tickets were sold at Kalaranta, while at Uusikaupunki, the figure was just 550. From then, the train dispatcher at Uusikaupunki also occasionally worked from Kalaranta.^[2]

Ticket sales at Kalaranta ceased on 1 October 1991, and passenger services on the entire Uusikaupunki railway ceased on 1 January 1993, which also marked the disestablishment of Kalaranta as an operating point. The old platform still remains at the site of the former halt.^[2]

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