Odenplan station is a station on both the Green Line of the

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and the City Line of the Pendeltåg commuter rail network. It is located at

Odenplan Odenplan is a plaza located in the district Vasastaden in central Stockholm, Sweden. History Odenplan was named after the old Norse god Odin. Odenplan metro station Odenplan station is a station on both the Green Line of the Stockholm M ...

in Vasastaden, in

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city centre. The station was inaugurated on 26 October 1952 as a part of the stretch of the Metro between

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and

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. It was significantly expanded in July 2017, with the opening of the City Line that provided a dedicated north-south route for the Pendeltåg, serving Odenplan on the way. Besides the new tunnels and platforms for the City Line, new station entrances were constructed, supplementing those built for the Metro. The station has two underground island platforms at different levels and on different alignments, with the City Line platforms at the lower level. It has entrances on Odenplan itself, on the north side of Karlbergsvägen opposite Odenplan, at the junction of Karlbergsvägen with Västmannagatan, and at the junction of Vanadisvägen with Dalagaten. The first two entrances provide direct access to both sets of platforms, whilst the Västmannagatan entrance provides direct access to the Metro platforms and Vanadisvägen to the City Line platforms. However both sets of platforms are connected by interchange passages, so it is possible to reach any platform from any entrance. Unlike the Metro platforms, the City Line platforms have

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. The new entrance constructed on Odenplan for the opening of the City Line consists of a rectangular building that is approximately long, wide and high, with one long side facing Karlbergsvägen. The other long side bends gently inwards where stairwells form seats towards the square in the best sun position. The entrance building has five entrances and leads via escalators, ordinary stairs and an elevator down to the new ticket hall. Nearby is a new

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with a capacity of 350 bicycles. Future plans include a diversion of the

Roslagsbanan Roslagsbanan is a narrow gauge commuter railway system in Roslagen, Stockholm County, Sweden. Its combined route length is and there are 38 stations. It is built to the Swedish three foot () gauge. The Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL) classifies ...

narrow-gauge commuter railway in tunnel from Universitetet station via Odenplan to a terminus at

T-Centralen T-Centralen (Swedish for "The T-Central"; T being an abbreviation for "tunnelbana", the Swedish word for "underground" or "subway") is a metro station that forms the heart of the Stockholm metro system, in the sense that it is the only station ...

. The station is 3.4 km from Slussen.

Gallery

File:Odenplan 20170710 bild 05.jpg, Barrier lines File:Stockholm subway odenplan 20050808 002.jpg, Metro platforms File:Odenplan station July 2017 06.jpg, City Line platforms File:Odenplan Tunnelbana.png, Location on Metro File:Stockholm Odenplan station map.jpg, Location on City Line

References

External links

Plan of station
(pdf)
Piano stairs at Odenplan
Green line (Stockholm metro) stations Railway stations opened in 1952 Stockholm metro stations located underground Stockholm City Line {{Stockholm-metro-stub