Haparanda railway station

Haparanda, Italy

Haparanda station is a railway station in Haparanda, Sweden. The station is connected to Boden and the rest of the Swedish railway network via the Haparanda Line, as well as to the Finnish railway network via the Tornio–Haparanda railway. Trains at the station are operated by the Swedish operator No

rrtåg and Finnish national railway operator VR Group. Designed by Swedish State Railways chief architect Folke Zettervall, planning for the station was underway by 1915. It served as a major transit hub for passengers and goods between Sweden, Finland, and Russia during both World Wars. After decades of declining traffic and regional train closures, the station became the eastern terminus of the newly electrified Haparanda Line in 2013.

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