himself or Wolmar Westling. Architecture Shortly after the railway to Heinola was completed, the second station building was deemed to have grown insufficient to meet the needs of the city and the traffic passing through it. The third and final station building was built in 1935. The station was designed by architect Thure Hellström from the Finnish State Railways and built in 1935. Because of the depression in the 1930s, the station did not get a third floor, neither did it get a tower, as the Tampere railway station did. The plan of the station is rectangular and it has two floors. It is built of dark brown brick, just as the warehouses in the vicinity of the main building. In the 1950s, the room between the station house and the rail yard was filled by a garden, featuring a fountain. In 2006, the station was renovated. The ticket office was moved from the east side of the corridor to the west side, and the storage lockers and R-kioski were removed from there, so that the ticket office is on the right-hand side when entering the station. The station restaurant is still in its original place on the east side of the station. The station platforms and the underpass tunnel of the west side of Vesijärvenkatu were also renovated. The renovation intended to make the station more efficient, when the more direct track from Helsinki to Lahti was opened on 1 September 2006. Near the Lahti railway station is the stationmaster's quarters, which is considered to be a culturally significant building in the Päijät-Häme region around Lahti. It was built in 1912 and was designed by architect Albert Leidenius. Services Commuter trains Lahti is a terminus for two lines on the Helsinki commuter rail network: to Helsinki and to Riihimäki. It is also one end of the unnamed commuter rail line to Kouvola, which merges with line Z at points: on weekdays, two commuter trains leave Kouvola in the early morning and proceed to Helsinki via Lahti. This service is also operated in the direction Helsinki–Kouvola once at late at night on weekdays, as well as in the direction Kouvola–Helsinki on weekend middays. Additionally, several of the Lahti–Kouvola commuter services are operated all the way from or continue towards Kotka as well. Long-distance trains As one of the termini of the Kerava–Lahti railway, all eastbound long-distance services from and to