Telefonplan metro station

Telefonplan metro station ("Telephone Square") is an outdoor station on Line 14 in the Stockholm metro. The station is located in the borough of Hägersten. It was opened on 5 April 1964 as part of the first stretch of Metro 2, between T-Centralen and Fruängen.[2]

Telefonplan
Stockholm metro station
Coordinates59°17′53″N 17°59′49″E
Owned byStorstockholms Lokaltrafik
History
Opened5 April 1964
Passengers
201811,500 boarding per weekday[1]
Services
Preceding station   Stockholm metro   Following station
toward Fruängen
T14 line
Location

Unlike most of the stations lying nearby, namely among others Midsommarkransen and Hägerstensåsen, the station's name does not refer to any specific area or a specific suburb. Instead, the station's name refers to a small square situated just west of the station's main entrance.

The subway station initially mainly served the Ericsson headquarters, Ericsson's main factory and the nearby serviced apartments of its workers. Ericsson's headquarters moved to Kista in 2003. Nowadays, the facilities of the factory have been taken over by the Swedish University College of Arts, and there are plans to build a design center close to the station. The area immediately east of the station is currently a construction site for new residential buildings, and plans to reconstruct the underground station as well as the whole area of Telefonplan are well developed. There are also plans to build a skyscraper close to the station, as a model for the "new Stockholm" that the municipality wishes to be constructed in the area.

Indie music club Landet is situated a few hundred meters from the station, making the station and the area more crowded at nighttime than ever before.

The station also serves the inhabitants of Västberga, and buses to closely situated to Solberga and Älvsjö start from here.

References
  1. "Fakta om SL och länet 2018" (PDF) (in Swedish). Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. p. 51. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  2. Schwandl, Robert. "Stockholm". urbanrail.


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