Hallonbergen is a station on the blue line of the

Stockholm metro The Stockholm metro ( sv, Stockholms tunnelbana) is a rapid transit system in Stockholm, Sweden. The first line opened in 1950, and today the system has 100 stations in use, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. There are three colou ...

, located in

Sundbyberg 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% urban p ...

. The station was opened on 31 August 1975 as part the first stretch of 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

Hjulsta Hjulsta is a working-class suburb of Stockholm. It is considered being part of Tensta, but with its own subway station which was opened in 1975 and is the end station of the blue line. The modern urban area of Hjulsta took its name from an old vi ...

. The trains were running to Hallonbergen and then continued to

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 ...

via a track which is currently used for the rail yard access. On 5 June 1977, the extension north to

Akalla Akalla is a district ( sv, stadsdel) in Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden. Akalla has a population of roughly 9.100 as of 2018, in which immigrants, mostly from Asia and Africa, make up 60,4% of the population. Akalla is located on the bl ...

was opened. The station's interior is covered with art intending to mimic kids' paintings done by

Elis Eriksson Elis Ernst Eriksson (22 August 1906 – 4 January 2006) was a Swedish artist, sculptor and writer. He was born in Stockholm and studied there at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in 1934–1939. He had his first solo exhibition i ...

and

Gösta Wallmark Per Gustav Gösta Hjalmar Wallmark (June 11, 1928 in Luleå, Sweden – November 20, 2017 in Visby) is a Swedish artist. Gösta Wallmark got his education from Otte Skölds målarskola in Stockholm, Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at Royal ...

. Between 1975 until 1985 Hallonbergen was the branching point for the Akalla and Hjulsta lines, as evident from its three-track layout. On 18 August 1985 the extension from Västra skogen to Rinkeby was opened, and the stretch between Hallonbergen and Rinkeby was closed for passenger traffic.

Gallery

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