{"id":3468,"date":"2023-11-29T03:31:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/sophistication-in-swedens-stockholm-2\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T03:31:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T03:31:09","slug":"sophistication-in-swedens-stockholm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/sophistication-in-swedens-stockholm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophistication in Sweden’s Stockholm 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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fbb can manage “karta” (map<\/span>) and “trafik” (traffic<\/span>) and can guess that “spar” might be train or rail. But “spar” is the name of a chain of convenience stores …<\/div>\n
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… which fbb always thought was a play on the words for cheap<\/span> and pine tree<\/span>! And rail<\/span> in Swedish is “jarnwag” (iron road<\/span>, surely) whilst train<\/span> is “tag”.<\/div>\n\n

Fortunately, the map offers at least an English translation of most of the tricky bits.<\/p>\n

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Confused.com?<\/p>\n

The network offers three categories of service. Here are some lines market “T” on the map …<\/p>\n

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… so that would be trams, then?<\/p>\n

Wrong again, fbb; it is Stockholm’s\u00a0metro<\/span>; T is for “tunnelbana”.<\/p>\n

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“bana” translates literally as path<\/span>, so maybe tunnel routes<\/span> or even underground routes<\/span>\u00a0would be a likely translation.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Let’s try lines 10 and 11 for rea! So we are looking for the “bla linen” which fbb could have guessed was blue line<\/span> even without the translation!\n
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The station at Hjulsta is underground and very smart …<\/p>\n

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… with lifts …<\/p>\n

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… and escalators for the two-stage descent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The general; finish is “hewn rockface” primitive in style.<\/p>\n

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The other northern terminus is Akala with a similar rocky decoration but seemingly in a cream colour rather than grey.<\/p>\n

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The two lines join …<\/p>\n

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… then, after passing through the main Central station, the city terminus is “Kungstradgarden” – King Street Garden<\/span>.\n
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This time the hewn stone is blue with more added mysterious artwotk.<\/p>\n

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So the whole line is underground.<\/div>\n
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The Kingstradgarden itself looks rather fine in a very formal sort of way.\n
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The station itself is in a little cars-banned side street but with a welcoming “T” at its end.<\/p>\n

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And there it is on the left.<\/p>\n

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The history of the line is surprisingly complex. With the help of Wikipedia, fbb can list what happened.<\/div>\n
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Groundbreaking for the Blue Line occurred on 2 September 1966.<\/p><\/div>\n

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31 August 1975<\/span><\/div>\n
Line was opened between\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
T-Centralen and Hjulsta via Hallonbergen.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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5 June 1977<\/span><\/div>\n
the branch from<\/span><\/div>\n
Hallonbergen to Akalla opened<\/span><\/div>\n

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30 October 1977<\/span><\/div>\n
extended in the opposite direction from<\/span><\/div>\n
T-Centralen to Kungstr\u00e4dg\u00e5rden.<\/span><\/div>\n

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19 August 1985<\/span><\/div>\n
opened between<\/span><\/div>\n
V\u00e4stra skogen and Rinkeby<\/span><\/div>\n
via Sundbybergs centrum.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Line 10 was then diverted over this section<\/span><\/div>\n
and no more passenger trains operated on the<\/span><\/div>\n
Hallonbergen\u2013Rinkeby section.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The blue line is thus all in tunnel except parts of the abandoned section which lead to the depot, possibly this one, also used by “proper” trains”\n
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Other Tunnelbana lines do have open air sections.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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A nice simple one is at the northern terminus of line 13 …\n
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… where the Metro connects with Tram 21.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Metro comes out of its tunnel and on to a viaduct …<\/div>\n
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.. .whence a walkway leads to tram 21.<\/div>\n
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It is called the “Lidingobanan and starts off as single track!<\/div>\n
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This leads us neatly (?) into tomorrow’s blog which looks at “trams and light rail”.<\/div>\n\n
\u00a0Next Stockholm blog : Thursday 30th November\u00a0<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Rails Local Network fbb can manage “karta” (map) and “trafik” (traffic) and can guess that “spar” might be train or rail. But “spar” is the name of a chain of convenience stores … … which fbb always thought was a play on the words for cheap and pine tree! And rail in Swedish is “jarnwag” (iron road, surely) whilst…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}