Stockholm Metro - Östermalmstorg Station | 3x Escalator | Sweden | 20/04/24

Östermalmstorg (lit. 'East Town Square') is a station on the Red line of the Stockholm Metro, located in the district of Östermalm. The station was opened on 16 May 1965 as the 59th station in the Stockholm system as the north terminus of the extension from T-Centralen. On 2 September 1967, the line was extended northeast to Ropsten. On 30 September 1973, another extension, north to Tekniska högskolan, was opened. The platform is approximately 38 metres (125 ft) below the surface. It is located in the city centre, making it one of the most-used stations in the system, with approximately 38,550 people travelling from the station on an average work day. The station was built deep underground in the Stockholm bedrock and formed the first part of the extension of the red line north of T-Centralen. Nearby stations include Stadion (T14) and Karlaplan. Stockholm Central Station is about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) away. The station has two main accessible exits, one by Östermalmstorg and one by Stureplan. The major artwork of the subway station was created by Siri Derkert and symbolises women's rights, world peace, and the green movement. It was designed to function as a shelter in the event of nuclear war. The Red line (Swedish: Röda linjen; officially Metro 2, but called Tub 2 ("Tube 2") internally), is one of the three Stockholm Metro lines. It has a total of 36 stations, of which four are cut and cover, 16 are tunneled, and 15 are on the surface. The line is a total of 41.238 kilometres (25.624 mi) long. It consists of four branches with terminals in Fruängen and Norsborg in the southwest and Mörby center and Ropsten in the northeast. The "Red line" designation began in the late-1970s, and officially only since the 1990s, and comes from the fact that the route has been marked in red on Storstockholms Lokaltrafik's maps at least since the 1970s. Previously, the Red line had been coloured orange on the system map, but as new maps were printed with changes, the colour became increasingly redder in the 1980s. History The line was opened on 5 April 1964, between T-Centralen and Fruängen and Örnsberg. Several more sections were opened between 1965 and 1967, while the last extension to Mörby centrum was completed in 1978. Within Stockholm's inner city, the red line was built independently of the street network, and at a greater depth than the Green line, which was constructed mainly under roadways. The Mälarhöjden-Liljeholmen section had its origins as the Södra Förstadsbanan tramway, dating from the 1910s. The somewhat newer Liljeholmen-Midsommarkransen section was built primarily on its own right of way, as the area was not densely populated. However, there were level crossings and subsequent sections were built in tunnel before the start of the metro. Today not much is left of the original tram route. The Telefonplan–Fruängen section (lines 14 and 17) was built in 1946–1956 as a pre-metro, with high-level centre subway platforms and shorter, low-level tram platforms at the sides. This section is the same today. For the extension beyond T-Centralen, tunnels had already been built when the Green line was built there, mostly by the cut-and-cover method. T-Central station was opened in 1957 for the Green line, while the Red line platforms opened in 1964. The route between Fruängen and Mörby centrum and back was originally numbered line 24, but was renumbered 14 around 2001. The Liljeholmen-Fruängen section underwent major renovation during the summer of 2006. The service was temporarily replaced by a bus route. Route and stations The Red line is served by two routes—lines 13 and 14—and carried 507,850 passengers per working day (2019), or approximately 128 million per year (2005). Line 13 runs between Norsborg and Ropsten, while line 14 operates Fruängen-Mörby centrum. Regular daytime service is a 5-minute headway on line 14 between Mörby center and Liljeholmen, and 10 minutes at other times. During rush hours there is a 5-minute service between Alby and Sätra-Ropsten and also along line 14, providing a train every 2.5 minutes on the joint stretch between Östermalmstorg and Liljeholmen (i.e. 24 trains per hour). The longest tunnels are between Gamla stan and Bergshamra (8.5 km (5.3 mi)), and Gamla stan to Gärdet (4.5 km (2.8 mi), 2.4 km (1.5 mi) in common with the Green line). #metro #railway #rail #ubahn #subway #transport #railways #publictransport #transit #rapidtransit #train #trains #transportation #bahn #eisenbahn #bahnhof #subwaystation #stockholm #sweden #sverige #tunnelbanan #tunnelbana #ubahnride #publictransportation #europe #züge #zug #tåg #tunnelbanetåg #järnväg #järnvägsspår #treinen #tunnelbanestation #escalator #escalatorsandelevators #rainbowescalator #rulltrappa #rulltrappor #ElevatorsfromSweden #simosepp #simonanderson #aviationvlad #pinkrailfan #JeffsTagtripp #metromark #metrocheck #antonv