Västra skogen metro station

Template:Short description Template:Västra skogen metro station Västra skogen (Template:Langx) is a station on the Blue Line of the Stockholm metro, in Huvudsta, Solna Municipality. The station was opened on 31 August 1975 as part the first stretch of the Blue Line between T-Centralen and Hjulsta. The trains were running via Hallonbergen and Rinkeby. On 18 August 1985 the extension to Rinkeby was opened, and the stretch between Hallonbergen and Rinkeby was closed for passenger traffic. It features one of the longest escalators in western Europe, 66 meters and with a vertical rise of 33 meters. This part of Huvudsta was earlier called Ingentingskogen (The Nothing Forest) after a small farm called Ingenting; the name Ingenting (Nothing) was suggested as a name for the new station, but rejected.

The station has three platforms, one for trains towards Hjulsta and Akalla, and two platforms towards Kungsträdgården, to allow trains from the two branches of the line to wait in the station before the two lines merge beyond the station.

Gallery

• Entrance
  Entrance
• Platform and train
  Platform and train
• Platform stairs
  Platform stairs
• Entrance detail
  Entrance detail
• Station's artwork
  Station's artwork
• Escalators
  Escalators
• File:Västraskogenprofil.jpg
• Bird's eye view of the station
  Bird's eye view of the station

External links

• Images of Västra skogen

Template:Sweden-railstation-stub Template:Stockholm-metro-stub