Thorildsplan metro station is a station on the
Green line of the
Stockholm metro. It takes its name from the nearby park of
Thorildsplan
Thorildsplan is a small park in the residential area of Kristineberg in Stockholm, Sweden.
Thorildsplan is northwest of Kungsholmen, west of Lindhagensgatan and north of Drottningsolmsvägen.
Thorildsplan Stockholm Metro station was commissio ...
, which in turn is named after the writer
Thomas Thorild
Thomas Thorild ( Svarteborg, Bohuslän, 18 April 1759 – Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, 1 October 1808), was a Swedish poet, critic, feminist and philosopher. He was noted for his early support of women's rights. In his 1793 treatise ''Om k ...
, and is in the district of
Kristineberg, which is in the
borough of Kungsholmen in central Stockholm. The station has a single
island platform
An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...
and is located in the centre of ''Drottningholmsvägen'', with access from a pedestrian underpass at its eastern end that passes under both road and rail line.
The distance to
Slussen is .
The station was inaugurated on 26 October 1952 as a part of the section of line between
Hötorget
Hötorget (''Haymarket'') is a city square in the center of Stockholm, Sweden that has been transitioning since the Early Medieval Period.
Description
To its east lies the Royal Concert Hall, to its south lies Filmstaden Sergel, one of the ...
and
Vällingby
Vällingby () is a suburban district in Västerort in the western part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden.
History
The agricultural land where the modern suburb now stands, has a history stretching some 2,000 years back (i.e. at least twi ...
.
[
As part of ''Art in the Stockholm metro'' project, the station has two distinct art works. A relief of a sun on the track wall is by Huck Hultgren and dates from 1975. A painting of concrete surfaces on the theme of ''Thomas Thorild, genius, inventor, thinker'' is by Tobias Apelgren and Lou Åberg and dates from 1998.][ ]
Gallery
File:Thorildsplan Metro station april 2011.jpg, Station seen from east, 2011
File:Thorildsplan 20170813 bild 01.jpg, Entrance from underpass, 2017
File:Thorildsplan 20170813 bild 02.jpg, Ticket hall, 2017
File:Thorildsplan 20170813 bild 03.jpg, Access to platform, 2017
References
Green line (Stockholm metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1952
Railway stations in Sweden opened in the 1950s
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