The first railway station in Helsinki was built in 1862 in Finland. It was the first railway between Helsinki and Hameenlinna in Finland. The station’s plans were drawn by a Swedish architect called Carl Albert Edelfelt, but the station turned out to be small. So, a contest was planned in 1904 to produce new plans for the new station, and the contest was won by Eliel Saarinen. Eliel first intention was to make the station have a National Romantic design but that started a debate and people demanded for a modern and rational style which made Eliel abandon the romanticism and redesign the station. The new design was finished in 1909, but it took 10 years to be opened to the public. This is Eliel’s most famous work.