Skarpnäck metro station explained

Skarpnäck
Symbol:metro
Symbol Location:stockholm
Type:Stockholm metro station
Style:Stockholm metro
Line:Green line
Distance: from Slussen[1]
Elevation: AMSL
Structure:Underground
Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Accessible:Yes
Code:SNK
Owned:Storstockholms Lokaltrafik
Passengers:5,200 boarding per weekday[2]
Pass Year:2019

Skarpnäck is a Stockholm metro station located in the Skarpnäcksfältet subdistrict of Skarpnäcks Gård district, Skarpnäck borough.

The station is the southern terminus for the green line 17 and the easternmost Stockholm metro station (as of). The station is 25m (82feet) below ground and was opened on 15 August 1994 as a one-station extension from Bagarmossen, making it the hundredth station in the Stockholm metro. As of it is still the newest station in the system.[3] The underground Bagarmossen metro station was opened at the same time, but replaced an older station in Bagarmossen, which was closed on 8 July 1994.

Skarpnäck is an underground station with a single vault spanning across the island platform and tracks; its span of is the largest in the Stockholm metro. The station artwork by American sculptor Richard Nonas consists of seventeen granite "benches" placed along the platform, as well as a red clinker floor and red-painted shotcrete walls alluding to the red brick buildings in Skarpnäck.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Alfredsson . Björn . Stockholm under: 100 stationer . Berndt . Roland . Harlén . Hans . Bromberg . 2007 . 978-91-7337-051-6 . 2nd . Stockholm . 44 . Swedish . .
  2. Web site: Fakta om SL och regionen 2019 . . 51 . Swedish . 1 April 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.
  3. Web site: Schwandl . Robert . Stockholm . urbanrail.
  4. Book: En värld under jord: färg och form i tunnelbanan . Stockholmia . 2000 . 91-7031-107-2 . Söderström . Göran . 2nd . Stockholm . 58, 238 . Swedish . .