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Kymlinge () is an area of
Sundbyberg Municipality Sundbyberg Municipality (''Sundbybergs kommun'' or ''Sundbybergs stad'') is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, just north of the capital Stockholm. Sundbyberg is wholly within the Stockholm urban area and has a 100% urba ...
,
Stockholm County Stockholm County ( sv, Stockholms län, link=no ) is a county or '' län'' (in Swedish) on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland County. It also borders Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. The city of Stockholm ...
,
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. It is mostly a recreational park, part of which is a nature reserve (
Igelbäcken Igelbäcken ( sv, (the) Leech Stream) is a small stream in northern Stockholm, Sweden. The drainage area, part of the Royal National City Park and divided into several nature reserves, is shared by the municipalities of Järfälla, Sollentuna, S ...
).


History

The area has been inhabited since the
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. The name is known since 1347, then as ''Kymmelinghe''. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the area was still used as a farm. Since the farm was abandoned, the area has been kept as a park. In the 1970s there were plans to develop the area as a suburb, mainly to accommodate government agencies, state-owned enterprises and other offices moving out from central
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(they needed larger offices). The plans were eventually scrapped, for several reasons. The suburbanisation of Stockholm had already peaked, and some government agencies were instead relocated to other cities in Sweden. Also, the municipality (which is the smallest in Sweden by area) wanted to preserve the area as a nature resort, so it was left untouched. Plans to develop the area are discussed every few years, especially around elections.


Metro station

In the early 1970s, the planning of a
metro station A metro station or subway station is a station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway". A station provides a means for passengers to purchase Train ticket, tickets, board trains, and Emergency eva ...
in Kymlinge, located between
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and
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stations, on the blue line to
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, was already well advanced. The transit authority
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decided to go on with the building, but the station was left
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, and the metro line was opened in 1977 without it. If the area is ever developed in the future it will be possible to carry on with the work. At the beginning of the 21st century such plans were again discussed. Kymlinge is sometimes called a “
ghost station A ghost station is a disused train station through which revenue-service passenger trains (especially rapid transit trains) pass but at which they do not stop. The term is also sometimes used for any unused underground station or any unused s ...
” or an “abandoned station”, but the fact is that the project has simply been put off indefinitely. The station is said to be haunted by the
Silverpilen ''The Silver Arrow'' (Swedish: "''Silverpilen''") is the nickname of a Stockholm Metro train which features in several urban legends alleging sightings of the train's ghost. Production and history The train is usually referred to as being co ...
ghost train.


See also

*
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- never-opened station on the
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. * Haxo - a never-opened station on the
Paris Metro Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Sin ...
* Porte Molitor - never-opened station on the
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. *
Silverpilen ''The Silver Arrow'' (Swedish: "''Silverpilen''") is the nickname of a Stockholm Metro train which features in several urban legends alleging sightings of the train's ghost. Production and history The train is usually referred to as being co ...
, the "ghost train" of the Stockholm Metro, sometimes associated with Kymlinge * The
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short story " The Commuter" involving a station called "Macon Heights". *
Ryugyong Hotel The Ryugyong Hotel (; sometimes spelled as Ryu-Gyong Hotel), or Yu-Kyung Hotel, more commonly known outside of North Korea as the "Hotel of Doom", is an unfinished 105-story, pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its name ("cap ...
, of Pyongyang, a hotel office project that stood incomplete for a decade, once featured on North Korean propaganda, such as stamps etc, airbrushed out, dubbing it the Phantom hotel.


References


External links


Images of Kymlinge 'ghost' stationMap of the Kymlinge section of the Igelbäcken nature reserve (white outline)
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