Älvsjö Railway Station
Älvsjö is a station on the Stockholm commuter rail network, located in the districts of Solberga, Stockholm, Solberga and Älvsjö in the Söderort, south of Stockholm Municipality. It is adjacent to the Stockholm International Fairs, Stockholmsmässan exhibition centre. History Älvsjö station, originally spelled "Elfsjö," first opened on 1 November 1879 along the Western Main Line, which connected Stockholm to Södertälje Centrum railway station, Södertälje in 1860 and to Gothenburg Central Station, Gothenburg in 1862. Before the station was built, a Railway halt, provisional stop had been established at the request of Gustaf Lagerbjelke, Count Gustaf Lagerbjelke, the owner of nearby Älvsjö Gård manor. On 28 December 1901, the Nynäs Line was inaugurated, turning Älvsjö into a junction station. The name was officially changed from "Elfsjö" to "Älvsjö" in 1909. Between 1916 and 1917, the station underwent expansion, adding separate tracks for Regional rail, local ...
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Stockholm Commuter Rail
Stockholm commuter rail () is the commuter rail system in Stockholm County, Sweden. The system is an important part of the public transport in Stockholm, and is controlled by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. The tracks are state-owned and administered by the Swedish Transport Administration, while the operation of the Stockholm commuter rail services itself has been contracted to SJ AB since March 2024. History Initial operations and early routes Local trains have been operated on the mainline railways around Stockholm since the late nineteenth century. At the beginning, local rail services were part of the Statens Järnvägar, Swedish State Railways, but in the late-1960s, the responsibility for these services was transferred to Stockholm County, which incorporated it with the ticketing system of Stockholm Transport. New trains were bought, stations were modernised, and the Stockholm commuter rail network was developed with an aim of making it more metro-like. Originally the syst ...
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