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Alavuden rautatieasema

Alavus, Etelä-Pohjanmaa, Finland

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Type
Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
Elements (as the agency lists them)
liikenteenrakennus, puisto, talousrakennus, työväen asuintalo
Character (as the agency lists it)
taajama
Municipality
Alavus
Region
Etelä-Pohjanmaa
Country
Finland
Coordinates
62.61741, 23.60156
Pin
Placed by TreeAlive at the centre of the largest area the agency maps
RKY number
4201

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The Finnish Heritage Agency's description

Alavuden rautatieasema on Seinäjoen ja Haapamäen rataosuuden pieniä asemia, jonka asemarakennus on poikkeuksellisen hyvin säilynyt. Yksikerroksiseen, uusrenessanssihenkiseen asemarakennukseen liittyy radan puolella koristeellinen, sisäänvedetty avokuisti.

Asema on rakennettu Alavuden kirkonkylän pohjoispuolelle, lähelle Lapuanjoen vartta. Asemapihaan kuuluu puiston, tavaramakasiinin ja talousrakennusten lisäksi kaksi 1960 rakennettua asuinrakennusta.

Tampere–Vaasa-rautatien rakentaminen aloitettiin 1879. Rata valmistui 1882 ja viralliset avajaiset pidettiin seuraavan vuoden syyskuussa, jolloin Alavuden IV-luokan aseman rakennukset olivat valmistuneet. Asemarakennus rakennettiin asematyyppi no 1:n piirustusten mukaan. Alavuden aseman hoitoon kuuluivat myös Tuurin, Niinimaan ja Pynttärin vaihteet.

Valtionrautateiden rakennussuunnittelijana toimi 1870- ja 1880-luvulla Knut Nylander. Tampere-Haapamäki-Seinäjoki-Vaasa -rataosuuden asemien rakennukset ovat todennäköisesti hänen suunnittelemiaan.

Alavudelle rakennettiin asemarakennuksen ja tavaramakasiinin lisäksi pieni puinen veturitalli, vesitorni ja pumppuhuone. Alavuden aseman puutarhasuunnitelma valmistui 1909.

Aseman tavaraliikenteen tärkein vientiartikkeli oli puutavara ja siitä jalostetut tuotteet. Vuosisadan alussa Alavudelta vietiin tervaa enemmän kuin miltään muulta asemalta. 1930-luvulla aseman läheisyydessä toimi kahdeksan sahaa. Ennen sotia ahtaaksi käyneen asemapihan laajennus toteutettiin 1950-luvun loppupuolella. Tavaraliikenteen lisäksi henkilöliikenne jatkui vilkkaana aina sotien jälkeiseen aikaan saakka.

Rakennuksista vesitorni ja veturitalli on purettu ja tavaramakasiinia on laajennettu alkuperäisestä.

Sirkka Valanto, Suomen rautatieasemat vuosina 1857-1920. Museovirasto, rakennushistorian osasto, Julkaisu 11/1982.

Asko Jämsén, Alavuden historia II, Jyväskylä 1991.

Sopimus valtakunnallisesti merkittävien asema-alueiden suojelusta (YM, päätös 9.12.1998 diarionro 2/562/96).

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Alavus railway station is one of the small stations on the Seinäjoki–Haapamäki line, and its station building is exceptionally well preserved. The single-storey, neo-Renaissance style station building has, on the track side, a decorative, recessed open porch.

The station was built north of Alavus church village, close to the banks of the Lapuanjoki river. In addition to a park, a goods storehouse and outbuildings, the station yard includes two residential buildings built in 1960.

Construction of the Tampere–Vaasa railway began in 1879. The line was completed in 1882, and the official opening was held in September of the following year, by which time the buildings of the Class IV station at Alavus had been completed. The station building was built to the drawings of station type no. 1. The Alavus station was also responsible for the switches at Tuuri, Niinimaa and Pynttäri.

Knut Nylander worked as a building designer for the State Railways in the 1870s and 1880s. The station buildings on the Tampere-Haapamäki-Seinäjoki-Vaasa line are probably of his design.

In addition to the station building and goods storehouse, a small wooden locomotive shed, a water tower and a pump house were built at Alavus. The garden plan for Alavus station was completed in 1909.

The most important export of the station's goods traffic was timber and products processed from it. At the beginning of the century more tar was shipped from Alavus than from any other station. In the 1930s eight sawmills operated in the vicinity of the station. The extension of the station yard, which had become cramped before the wars, was carried out in the late 1950s. Alongside goods traffic, passenger traffic continued busily until the post-war period.

Of the buildings, the water tower and locomotive shed have been demolished, and the goods storehouse has been extended from its original form.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Descriptions are shown with the written permission of the Finnish Heritage Agency and reproduced unchanged. Locations come from its open spatial data; pins are placed by TreeAlive. Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto) · Spatial data: CC BY 4.0
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