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29-614: SM6 , Sm6 , sM6 or sm6 stands for: KT Class Sm6 , a type of train owned by Karelian Trains and operated by the Russian Railways and VR Group RIM-174 Standard ERAM , a surface-to-air naval missile SM6 postcode area , the Sutton postcode area covering Wallington , Beddington , Hackbridge , Roundshaw and South Beddington Renault Talisman `s Korean name Titleist Golf club . [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

58-804: A hub point between the Helsinki harbour rail and the Sörnäinen harbour rail . The railway yard was connected to the Finnish Main Line , the Rantarata line and the Ilmala depot . The Sörnäinen harbour rail started directly to the east of the railway yard and a side rail branched off it towards the Pasila machinery yard. The Pasila lower yard was disused in 2008 when the Vuosaari Harbour

87-459: A new car terminal built north of Pasila. The station was under extensive renovation from 2015 to 2019. The new station opened on 17 October 2019. The current station building in Pasila was taken into use on 17 October 2019. It has been built on top of pillars above the tracks, and is integrally connected to the Mall of Tripla shopping centre next to it. The Pasilansilta traffic bridge connecting

116-437: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages KT Class Sm6 Allegro was the brand name of a now defunct high-speed train service, operated by Alstom VR Class Sm6 trains, between Helsinki , Finland , and St. Petersburg , Russia . The service started on 12 December 2010. The aim was to reduce travel time between Helsinki and Saint Petersburg: before Allegro,

145-472: Is one of two stations in Helsinki to serve long-distance traffic, the other being the central station. All other stations in Helsinki only serve local traffic. In terms of train lines, the only differences between Pasila station and the central station are the smaller number of tracks with platforms (11 compared to 19). In 2012, the loading and unloading of cars onto trains was moved from Helsinki Central to

174-539: The COVID-19 pandemic . Service resumed with restrictions on 12 December 2021. During the 2022 Russian financial crisis , in the aftermath of international sanctions placed on Russian companies following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , the Allegro train became a primary means for people to leave Russia. As European airspace had been closed to Russian planes, and Russian airspace was closed to European planes,

203-523: The Rantarata going to the west (to Turku ) separate from each other at Pasila railway station. The Helsinki commuter trains in the direction of Riihimäki as well as all long-distance trains except those going to Turku use the Finnish Mainline, while the commuter trains towards Vantaankoski and Kirkkonummi , as well as long-distance trains to Turku use the Rantarata line. Pasila station

232-674: The Finnish 25 kV 50 Hz alternating current and the Russian 3 kV direct current electrification systems. The wheelsets were built to run at over 200 km/h (120 mph) speeds on both the Finnish 1,524 mm ( 5 ft ) and the nominally slightly narrower Russian 1,520 mm ( 4 ft  11 + 27 ⁄ 32  in ) gauges, and the doors were equipped with a retractable step to make boarding from both Finnish 550 mm (21.7 in) high and Russian 1,100 mm (43.3 in) high platforms easy. The units were equipped for both

261-481: The Finnish and Russian railway technical systems, which differed substantially. Pasila railway station Pasila station is used to ease the congestion on the city's central station by serving as an alternate point of departure or arrival within Helsinki. All trains, both long-distance and local, travelling to and from Helsinki stop at Pasila. The Finnish Main Line going to the north (to Oulu via Tampere ) and

290-662: The Helsinki Central Station into Pasila. During the construction of Itä-Pasila , the old station building was left on the Ratapihantie street passing the railway yard, and for several years, the street was narrower at the railway station than elsehwere. In 1984 the building was moved to the nearby Veturitori square to serve as the office of the Peace Union of Finland , as the so-called "Rauhanasema" ("Station of Peace") building. The new station building

319-487: The Mall of Tripla connected to it were opened on 17 October 2019. To the west of the Pasila railway station, lower than the platform area, at the current site of Keski-Pasila , was located the former cargo railway yard, officially named the Pasila lower yard. It was located in a valley at whose site was originally located the lake Töölönjärvi , dried up in the 1870s. This railway yard was used for sorting cargo traffic and as

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348-423: The Pasila railway station were stopped in the beginning of 2016. The station building, built in 1990, was closed down on 19 June 2017, after which it was dismantled to make way for the new station building and the Mall of Tripla. Even before this, on 3 April 2017, a temporary new station building had been built on top of the station platforms slightly to the north of the old station. The current station building and

377-680: The area, with Veturitie being the central main streets. The Pasila car transport station was built in place of the dismantled rails in 2012. All passenger trains arriving to and departing from Helsinki stop at Pasila. Trains to Russia did not stop at Pasila in the early 1990s, and the Allegro train to Saint Petersburg did not stop at Pasila from 2016 to 2020. On 12 August 2019 the platform numbering in Pasila changed so that platform 5b became platform 6, platform 6 became platform 7, platform 7 became platform 8, platform 8 became platform 9 and platform 9 became platform 10. A new platform, numbered 11,

406-452: The checks took place inside these stations. The Allegro service was operated using Class Sm6 trainsets built by Alstom . Sm6 stood for electric multiple unit ( Finnish : sähkömoottorijuna , literally 'electric motor train') model 6. VR has announced that they have seized full control of the trains and would begin using them in domestic services during 2025 The Sm6 appeared externally similar to VR 's earlier Sm3 Pendolino series, but

435-506: The city centre were built and expanded from 1900 to 1928. In the 1920s passenger traffic on the railways was moved to new tracks built on the east side of the original railway yard, and the original railway yard remained only for cargo traffic. At this time, the wooden station building at Vammeljoki on the Karelian Isthmus was moved to the east side of the tracks in Pasila to serve as the new station building. This also broke off

464-469: The connection between the station building and Puu-Pasila. There were only industrial halls and warehouses in the vicinity of the station at the current area of Itä-Pasila. At the time, the Pasila station was primarily an exchange station, where passengers could move from trains arriving to Helsinki via the Rantarata line to trains departing from Helsinki to the north on the Finnish Main Line, or

493-537: The districts of Itä-Pasila and Länsi-Pasila passes to the south of the Pasila railway station and the shopping centre. The first side tracks in Pasila were built in the late 1870s when traffic in the city centre and the Sörnäinen harbour increased. The proper start of the construction of the railway yard is seen as have happened from 1889 to 1890. The current station building is the fourth station building in Pasila, if temporary buildings are not counted. The first station building, probably designed by Bruno Granholm ,

522-583: The evacuation of other nationals). The service was suspended on 27 March 2022 due to the aforementioned sanctions. In December 2023, it was announced that VR Group had assumed the financial obligations of the joint stock company that used to run Allegro since it could no longer meet them itself. VR Group plans to reuse the rolling stock in domestic operations. Allegro connected the following stations: The trains also stopped previously in Pasila like every other passenger train from and to Helsinki, but this stop

551-445: The journey time was 5½ hours; it became 3 hours and 27 minutes over a journey of 407 km (253 mi) and there were plans to bring it down to 3 hours. The name Allegro is a musical term for a quick tempo , thereby suggesting "high speed". On board the inaugural service were Finnish president Tarja Halonen and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin . The service was suspended between 18 March 2020 and 11 December 2021 due to

580-668: The other way around. The Finnish name "Pasila" for the station was made official by the Finnish Railway Administration in 1925. The name comes from Karl Pasila, a long-time tenant at the Fredriksberg farm, whose name had already been in use for the area. The Swedish name for the station remained as "Fredriksberg", even though the Swedish name for the district of Pasila was Böle. Eliel Saarinen proposed in his Pro Helsingfors plan in 1918 to move

609-402: The same reason. On board the train, each passenger was visited by Finnish Border Guard and customs officers , as well as their Russian counterparts. Finnish border control took place while the train was travelling between Kouvola and Vainikkala, while Russian border control took place while the train was travelling between Vyborg and St Petersburg. If boarding/exiting at Vainikkala or Vyborg,

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638-448: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SM6&oldid=1011421622 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

667-488: The train was the only passenger connection between Russia and the European Union . EU authorities asked VR to keep this train running so that those wishing to leave Russia could do so (though as part of COVID-19 restrictions, only Finnish and Russian citizens were allowed to use the train, and it ran only twice a day at half-capacity, of 327 passengers; but operators worked to lift those restrictions in order to allow

696-509: Was 3 hours 27 minutes. All four Sm6 trains were refurbished by VR FleetCare between 2018 and 2019. The Sm6 fleet was primarily maintained at Ilmala depot north of Helsinki, although some maintenance mainly related to Russian technical systems was also performed in Saint Petersburg. The Sm6 was equipped to operate on both the Finnish and the Russian railway networks. The units had dual-voltage electrical equipment able to use both

725-608: Was based on the fourth generation 'Pendolino Nuovo' or ' New Pendolino ' designs and its construction differed from the Sm3 in many ways. The top speed of the train in passenger traffic was 220 km/h (140 mph) which could be reached between Kerava and Lahti . The train could run at a speed of 200 km/h (120 mph) between Tikkurila and Luumäki and Vyborg and St. Petersburg after extensive rail works. The aim had been to reduce travel time between Helsinki and Saint Petersburg from 5½ hours to 3 hours. The travel time as of 2017

754-432: Was built in 1990 on top of pillars above the tracks, and it also hosted business spaces and restaurants. However, it fared rather poorly as a commercial centre. The Swedish name of the station was changed from Fredriksberg to Böle on 27 May 1990. Since the opening of the new station building, as well as the Helsinki commuter trains, all long-distance trains to and from Helsinki have also stopped at Pasila. Ticket sales at

783-536: Was built in the 1890s to the western edge of the railway yard to the north of the current Toralinna building. It was originally named Fredriksberg after the farm located near it. An area of small residential buildings, called Puu-Pasila ("wooden Pasila"), was formed near the station in the early 20th century. The basis for the plan to expand the railway yard was a suggestion by the German engineering bureau C.O. Gleim & Eyde. The railway yards both in Pasila and in

812-589: Was completed and cargo ship traffic moved there from the West Harbour and the Sörnäinen Harbour . The harbour rails in the city centre were dismantled, and the Vuosaari harbour rail was built to serve the new harbour. New business, office and residential buildings were built in place of the former cargo railway yard, such as the Mall of Tripla shopping centre. New streets have also been built in

841-410: Was discontinued between 27 March 2016 and 11 December 2021, when the stop in Pasila was revived. Vainikkala (on the Finnish side of the border) and Vyborg are special stations: on trains bound for Finland, passengers are not allowed to leave the train at Vyborg, as the train only stops to pick up passengers; and on trains bound for Russia, passengers are not allowed to leave the train at Vainikkala, for

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