Rådhuset metro station is a

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station in

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in central

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, part of the

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. The station is located on the blue line between

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 ...

and

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and was opened on 31 August 1975 as part the first stretch of the Blue Line between

and

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. The trains were running via

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and

Rinkeby Rinkeby () is a stadsdel, district in the Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden. Rinkeby had 19,349 inhabitants in 2016. The neighbourhood was part of the Million Programme. The Stockholm metro station Rinkeby metro station, Rinkeby was also o ...

. Like some other stations on the Stockholm metro, it uses

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, which leaves the

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exposed and unsculptured, appearing to be based on natural cave systems. The underground station is named after '' Rådhuset'' (The Courthouse) right above the surface. The

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and the Police Headquarters are also located in the vicinity.

Gallery

File:Spärr i Rådhuset bild 1.jpg File:Rådhuset underground metro station Stockholm 2016 01b.jpg, Exposed

at the Rådhuset Station File:Rådhuset underground metro station Stockholm 2016 02.jpg

References

External links

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Images of Rådhuset
Blue line (Stockholm metro) stations Railway stations opened in 1975 {{Stockholm-metro-stub