Åkeshov is a station on the Green line of the Stockholm metro. It is located in the borough of

Bromma Bromma () is a Boroughs of Stockholm, borough (''stadsdelsområde'') in the western part of Stockholm, Sweden, forming part of the Stockholm Municipality. Bromma is primarily made up of Bromma Parish and Västerled Parish. The fourth largest airpo ...

in the west of the city of Stockholm. The station is at ground level, has two

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

s flanking three through tracks, and is one of the intermediate termini along the northern section of the Green line, with line 17 trains normally terminating. Access is by way of a pedestrian underpass that passes under both the metro line and the adjacent ''Bergslagsvägen'' street.

Location and history

The station lies on the route of a line known as the that formerly linked

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and

Islandstorget Islandstorget is a station in the Stockholm metro on the Green line. It is located in the district of Södra Ängby, which is part of the borough of Bromma in the west of the city of Stockholm. The station is above ground with a single island ...

. The Ängbybanan was designed and built for use by the future metro, but was operated from 1944 as part of line 11 of the

Stockholm tramway The Stockholm tramway network forms part of the public transport system in Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden. Beginning with horse trams in 1877, the Stockholm tram network reached its largest extent in 1946. Many of the former suburban tra ...

. Åkeshov station was inaugurated as part of the metro on 26 October 1952 with the conversion of the Ängbybanan and its extension to form the metro line between

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and

Vällingby Vällingby () is a suburban district in Västerort, the western part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It is notable for being one of the first modern planned suburbs in Sweden. Vällingby was inaugurated in 1954 as part of Stockholm's post-war ...

Bronze sculpture

As part of ''Art in the Stockholm metro'' project, the station features a

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

in the ticket hall symbolizing non-violence. The sculpture was created by

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (4 June 1934 – 3 May 2016) was a Swedish painter and sculptor. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris 1951 and was a professor of painting at The Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm 1965–1969. In 1974 he was a gues ...

in 1998.

Gallery

File:Åkeshov metro 13 oktober 2018 06.jpg, Entrance on the north side of ''Bergslagsvägen'', 2018 File:Åkeshovs tunnelbanestation, 2021i.jpg, Entrance on the south side of the station, 2021 File:Åkeshov metro 13 oktober 2018 02.jpg, Station interior, 2018 File:Åkeshov metro 13 oktober 2018 01.jpg, Sculpture ''Non-Violence'', 2018 File:Åkeshov metro 13 oktober 2018 05.jpg, Twin platforms with terminating train, 2018

References

Green line (Stockholm metro) stations Railway stations in Sweden opened in 1952 1950s establishments in Stockholm {{Stockholm-metro-stub