Islandstorget metro station explained

Islandstorget
Symbol:metro
Symbol Location:stockholm
Style:Stockholm metro
Structure:At grade
Tracks:2
Accessible:Yes
Code:ILT
Passengers:3,450 boarding per weekday[1]
Pass Year:2019

Islandstorget is a station in the Stockholm metro on the Green line. It is located in the district of Södra Ängby, which is part of the borough of Bromma in the west of the city of Stockholm. The station is above ground with a single island platform. The entrance is from Blackebergsvägen, which passes over the line. On a workday there are some 3,450 passengers who travel from Islandstorget.[1] [2] [3]

The site of the station was the western terminus of a line known as the that ran from Alvik. The Ängbybanan was designed and built for use by the future metro, but was operated from 1944 as part of line 11 of the Stockholm tramway. Islandstorget station was inaugurated as part of the metro on 26 October 1952 with the conversion of the Ängbybanan and its extension to form the metro line between Hötorget and Vällingby.[2] [4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fakta om SL och regionen 2019 . . 51 . Swedish . 30 March 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201227192823/https://www.sll.se/globalassets/2.-kollektivtrafik/fakta-om-sl-och-lanet/sl_och_regionen_2019.pdf . 27 December 2020 . live.
  2. Web site: Schwandl . Robert . Stockholm . urbanrail . 8 May 2019 . 23 April 2019 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190423124412/http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/se/stockholm/stockhlm.htm.
  3. Web site: Islandstorget . Google maps . 9 March 2022.
  4. Book: Jacobson, Per . En spårväg till Bromma . A tramway to Bromma . sv . 1998 . Baneforlaget . Oslo . 82-91448-25-6.