Stora Mossen metro station is a station on the

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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 ...

. It is located on the border between the districts of

Ulvsunda Ulvsunda is a district in Bromma in western Stockholm, just east of Stockholm Bromma Airport Bromma Stockholm Airport (formerly Stockholm-Bromma Flygplats) is a Swedish domestic and minor international airport in Stockholm. It is located west-n ...

and , which are part of the borough of

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in the west of the city of Stockholm. The station is on an embankment and has a single

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, with access from a pedestrian subway under the line linking Drottningholmsvägen and Stora Mossens Backe. The distance to Slussen is . The station lies on the route of a line known as the that formerly linked

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and Islandstorget. The Ängbybanan was designed and built for use by the future metro, but was operated from 1944 as part of line 11 of the

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. Stora mossen station was inaugurated as part of the metro on 26 October 1952 with the conversion of the Ängbybanan and its extension to form the metro line between Hötorget and

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Gallery

File:Stora Mossen 20170813 bild 01.jpg, The subway, 2017 File:Stora Mossen 20170813 bild 02.jpg, Entrance from subway, 2017 File:Stora Mossen 20170813 bild 03.jpg, inside the station, 2017 File:Stora Mossens station.JPG, Station from the east, 2010

References

Green line (Stockholm metro) stations Railway stations opened in 1952 Railway stations in Sweden opened in the 1950s {{Stockholm-metro-stub