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	SELKI STATION HISTORY

The Selki station lies on the Hanko-Hyvinkää railway between the stations of Otalampi and Röykkä. The railway was built in 1873 by a company financed by St Petersburg business men. In 1875 the company went bankrupt and ownership of the railway passed to the State.

The station building is part of a group of buildings including a simple guard house which was home to the station agent, as well as a sauna and a barn.

Katriina Elomaa on her 60th birthday.

The Selki station in the early 1900's.

The station was built at the end of the 1890's according to the standard drawings of Knut Nylander, architect of the State Railways. The other buildings on the site were designed by Bruno F. Granholm and they were built in 1906.

Yrjö, Fanny, Inga Elomaa. Children Soile, Sirpa, Einar and Antturi.

Johannes and Katri Elomaa.

In the beginning of the 1900's the position of Station agent was held by Johannes Elomaa and he was followed by his son Yrjö Elomaa who served as agent until his retirement in the 1950's. After this the station no longer had a permanent attendant but was operated on a part-time basis by the agent of the neighbouring station of Otalampi.

Tuomo, Yrjö, Fanny, Soile, Sirpa and Lempi Antturi. With their back to the camera are Pertti, Helmi and Kirsti. The photo is taken in front of Yrjö Elomaa's house

Lempi Antturi, Helmi and Aino Elomaa.

Aino Elomaa
The station's post office was run by Yrjö Elomaa?s
sister Aino and later by Eeva Kajosaari.

The station was a busy loading place for lumber. Heli Artola from Selki remembers how during the war years Station agent Elomaa shouted that she take off her red hat and hide between the piles of lumber when Russian planes flew over the station.

Easter 1957: Aunt Aino with Pertti.

After passenger traffic on the railway ceased between Karjaa and Hyvinkää in 1983 Selki's station building functioned as a flea market and a warehouse. The station building was rented by an Auvo Ortju from
Selki. The Guard house and other buildings were rented until 2001 by a former State Railways' employee Reino Ketola from Riihimäki.

	The adults in the back are Aino, ?, Elli and Helmi Malm, Fanny, Yrjö, Helmi Elomaa. The children are Tuomo and Paaso Elomaa and Kai and Anna Liisa Antturi.	Selki in the summer of 1930. Sitting on the fence are Tuomo and Paaso Elomaa. In the hammock are Anna Liisa, Kirsti and Kai Antturi.