HELSINKI | Metro

[Woonsocket54]

This is a bilingual metro, with signage and announcements in both Finnish and Swedish. The first section opened in 1982, and the latest section to open was the branch to Vuosaari in 1998. Kalasatama was added as an infill station on the trunk line in 2007.

Here are some photos of this metro system
Source: http://simaniv.livejournal.com/22187.html









Kamppi (Kampen) ~ "Battlefield." Opened 1983. The station is located right in downtown and is connected to an underground intercity coach terminal and a shopping centre.


Kamppi station entrance. The system does not have entrance turnstiles.


Fare control


Ticket machines


Rautatientori (Jarnvagstorget) ~ "Central railway station". Located at the railway station.



This is the only station whose anglophone name is also announced. It was flooded in 2009 and was closed for 4 months as a result.


"Friday night faces" abstract composition


Kaisaniemi (Kajsaniemi) ~ "Kaisaniemi Street." The name sounds the same in Finnish and Swedish and is thus announced just once. It opened in 1995 as an infill station.






Hakaniemi (Hagnas) ~"Hakaniemi Square."




Sornainen (Sornas) station




Kalasatama (Fiskhamnen) ~ "Fish Harbour" - the metro's newest station.






Herttoniemi (Hertonas) station


Siilitie (Igelkottsvagen) ~ "Porcupine Road."


Itakeskus (Ostra centrum) ~ "East Center." This is a junction for the two branches. This station contains three tracks and two platforms.


North branch:

Myllypuro (Kvarnbacken) ~ "Mill on the creek."


Kontula (Gardsbacka) ~ "Farmer"


Mellunmaki (Mellungsbacka) - world's northernmost metro station




Southern branch:

Puotila (Botby gard) ~ "Trade"


Rastila (Rastbole)


Vuosaari (Nordsjo) - Naked Island/North Sea

[wastedrepublic]

Here's the official metro map. Are you Finnish by any means? Or are you just fascinated by the most awfully colored metro in the world? Just wondering. Nice to get an own thread, guess there's some info in the Helsinki development threads.



Link to the Länsimetro project homepage.

[Falubaz]

It always felt like a dark place... and pretty old design.
Let's hope the western branch, which is planed to be build soon, will be nicer.


Rautatientori


Itaekeskus

[Minato ku]

This color was trandy in the early 1980's.
Personnaly, I have nothing against iot, it gives some style to the system.

When will opened the section under in construction ?

[Falubaz]

Itaekeskus




Ruoholahti

[Falubaz]

Rautatientori

[Minato ku]

Nice pictures.

[Woonsocket54]

Originally Posted by wastedrepublic

Here's the official metro map. Are you Finnish by any means? Or are you just fascinated by the most awfully colored metro in the world?

I am not Finnish; I am wondering if the design was based on the Orange Line in Boston.

[Yardmaster]

Good to see you have nice wide platforms there, properly paved, and nice platform furniture as well.

Can you explain the fences along some of the platform edges?

[Silly_Walks]

Originally Posted by Yardmaster

Can you explain the fences along some of the platform edges?

Guessing:

So people don't cross the tracks to get from one platform to the other.

[ruslan33]

Finally some Helsinki pictures !

[Woonsocket54]

Indeed, as has been expressed above, the Finns are not quite "Finnish"ed building their metro.

Here are some photos from January from the Baltic forum showing work at Otaniemi station:

Originally Posted by Janne_H

Photos from Otaniemi metro station. 35 m solid rock above.









photos by me

Furthermore, Otaniemi station will have platform screen doors. Helsinki will become the second city on the shores of the Gulf of Finland to have a metro with PSDs (the first being St Petersburg):

Originally Posted by satama

Otaniemi station has changed from bright orange to copper colored. I no like.

[Falubaz]

And the new stations are still very 'orangish'

[tonttula]

Originally Posted by Falubaz

And the new stations are still very 'orangish'

And will stay so. I'm sure nobody would accept the orange color if the base metro was being constructed now, now its just simply about the color surviving so long that its associated to metro.

Here are some of the designs for the stations, though they are from the same date as the old Otaniemi station, so things might have changed.

Keilaniemi station




Matinkylä station

[zaphod]

I like the screaming orange color.

Don't ruin it they way they are ruining the design integrity of the DC metro now with station remodeling.

[hemarookworst]

A thread about the Helsinki Metro can't be complete without this classic MV from the nineties!

[propel]

Construction of the west metro is scheduled to be finished at the end of 2015. Big problems with Siemens and automation though..



The city of Espoo is keen on extending the west metro by further 5 stations to the west, to Kivenlahti. The council has approved plans. All it needs is some money (767M€).. Brother, can you spare a dime?



source http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A4nsimetro

[ibarrere]

I guess I'm the only person who likes the color of the metro, my favorite color is orange! I had a long-standing fascination with Helsinki before I ever went there, I also love public transport, so when I discovered that the metro is orange it seemed very fitting for me.

[Greg95100]

The metro in orange color reminds me the 70's.
It's not for our time.

[Slartibartfas]

I have no problems with it. The U3 in Vienna is in orange as well (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...tbahnhof_1.JPG). Of course it feels slightly retro, but so what? I like it.