Mellunmäki metro station (Finnish: Mellunmäen metroasema, Swedish: Mellungsbackas metrostation) is the ground-level terminus station on the M2 line of the Helsinki Metro.[2] It serves the district of Mellunmäki in East Helsinki.
Mellunmäki Mellungsbacka | |||||||||||
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| Helsinki Metro station | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Pallaksentie 3, Helsinki | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 60°14′21″N 25°6′39″E / 60.23917°N 25.11083°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | HKL | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | HSL Helsinki bus lines 95 95N 97 97N 95V 560 805 812 HSL Vantaa bus lines 570 572 572K 587 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | B | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1 September 1989 | ||||||||||
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| 14,000 daily[1] | |||||||||||
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The station was opened on 1 September 1989 and was designed by architect bureau Toivo Karhunen Oy. It is located 1.6 kilometres east of Kontula.
The Mellunmäki metro station is the northernmost metro station in the world.[3]
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Entrance from the bus terminal -
Entrance from Korvatunturinpolku -
Art in the station -
The station before renovations
References edit
- ^ "Metroasemien käyttäjämäärät". HKL. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ^ "Mellunmäki". Helsingin kaupunki. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
- ^ "Mellunkylän alueellinen kehittämissuunnitelma" (PDF) (in Finnish). City of Helsinki. 15 February 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
External links edit
Media related to Mellunmäki metro station at Wikimedia Commons