- Lielahti
Lielahti ("Lielax" in Swedish) is a suburb in the city ofTampere (Tammerfors),Finland with important industrial and commercial facilities. Lielahti was annexed to the city in1950 fromYlöjärvi parish. Lielahti lies about 7 kilometers west from the city centre.The most prominent sight when arriving Lielahti is maybe the
M-real pulp mill , which can sometimes also be sensed nasally.There is also a
train station in Lielahti, but its use in passenger traffic was discontinued in1984 due to its lack of passengers. It remains though as afreight station used by the pulp even today, and its most important function is as a railway junction, since the railway tracks fromPori (Björneborg) andSeinäjoki merge there, continuing as a double-track railway to the main station of Tampere.In the future it is quite likely that the local
public transport in Tampere region will again be provided bycommuter train s, in a way or another. Then the trains bound from and to Nokia, and perhaps from and toYlöjärvi will stop at the Lielahti station.
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