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Peltos whistle stop

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Owned by
  
State Railways

Tracks
  
2

Closed
  
28 May 1995

Opened
  
2 January 1931

Line(s)
  
L

Station code
  
Plt

Owner
  
VR Group

Peltos whistle-stop (Finnish: Pellon seisake, Swedish: Åkers hållplats) was a railway halt in Espoo, Finland midway between Espoo railway station & Kauklahti railway station, about 1.8 km from each.

Peltos halt was opened on 2 January 1931. The whistle-stop was planned to be abolished in 1978 but due a local small hospital and the wishes of a few locals it remained. The Peltos halt was very rarely used as the area is in a field and has very few houses near it. On 28 May 1995 Peltos whistle-stop was abolished due to extremely low number of users (estimated 5-20 per day.) There is currently nothing remaining of the whistle-stop; even the crossing was abolished in 2006. L train was the only train that stopped on Pelto, only if the passenger requested.

References

Peltos whistle-stop Wikipedia