Hässelby Strand metro station is the western terminus of the Green line of the Stockholm metro. It is located in the district of

Hässelby strand Hässelby is a Swedish town that is a part of Hässelby-Vällingby in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, comprising the suburban areas Hässelby Gård, Hässelby Strand and Hässelby Villastad. The territory also corresponds to Hässelby parish ...

, which is part of the borough of

Hässelby-Vällingby Hässelby-Vällingby is a borough (''stadsdelsområde'') in the western part of Stockholm, Sweden. It is primarily made up of Hässelby ( Gård, Strand Strand may refer to: Topography *The flat area of land bordering a body of water, a: ** Beac ...

in the west of the city of Stockholm. The station is at ground level and has a single

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, with two terminal platform tracks and a siding. Access is from Fyrspannsgatan through a building across the end of the platform that also includes shops and apartments. The distance to Slussen is . The station was inaugurated on 18 November 1958 as the westerb end of an extension from Hässelby gård. As part of a redevelopment of the centre of Hässelby strand, the original single-storey station building was closed and demolished in 2013, being initially replaced by a temporary building on a different site. This in turn was replaced in 2015 by the new multi-storey building, with shops and apartments, on the site of the original building. As part of ''Art in the Stockholm metro'' project, the access route from the station building to the platforms was decorated in 2000 with a

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by artist entitled ''Teleportings''. These survived the 2015 rebuilding.

Gallery

File:Hässelby strand Metro 13 oktober 2018 08.jpg, Station entrance, 2018 File:Hässelby strand Metro 13 oktober 2018 06.jpg, Inside the station building, 2018 File:Ubhf Hässelby Strand Sthlm 02.jpg, ''Teleportings'', 2014 File:Hässelby strand Metro 13 oktober 2018 11.jpg, View towards end of line, 2018

References

Green line (Stockholm metro) stations Railway stations opened in 1958 1958 establishments in Sweden Stockholm metro stations located above ground {{Stockholm-metro-stub fi:Hässelby Strand