Skarpnäck is a

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 colo ...

station located in the Skarpnäcksfältet subdistrict of Skarpnäcks Gård district,

Skarpnäck borough Skarpnäck may refer to: *Skarpnäck borough in Stockholm, Sweden *Skarpnäck metro station, a Stockholm metro station *Skarpnäck parish, a Church of Sweden parish in Stockholm, Sweden *Skarpnäcksfältet, a subdistrict in Skarpnäcks Gård distric ...

. The station is the southern terminus for the green line 17 and the easternmost Stockholm metro station (as of ). The station is below ground and was opened on 15 August 1994 as a one-station extension from Bagarmossen, making it the hundredth station in the Stockholm metro. As of it is still the newest station in the system. The underground Bagarmossen metro station was opened at the same time, but replaced an older station in Bagarmossen, which was closed on 8 July 1994. Skarpnäck is an underground station with a single vault spanning across the

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 ...

and tracks; its span of is the largest in the Stockholm metro. The station artwork by American sculptor Richard Nonas consists of seventeen

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies und ...

"benches" placed along the platform, as well as a red

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floor and red-painted

shotcrete Shotcrete, gunite (), or sprayed concrete is concrete or mortar conveyed through a hose and pneumatically projected at high velocity onto a surface, as a construction technique, first used in 1907 invented by Carl Akeley. It is typically ...

walls alluding to the red brick buildings in Skarpnäck. File:Skarpnäck metro 20190420 03.jpg, Ticket barriers and escalator access to the underground platform Skarpnäck metro 20190420 08.jpg, Granite bench

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Images of Skarpnäck
Green line (Stockholm metro) stations Railway stations opened in 1994 1994 establishments in Sweden Stockholm metro stations located underground {{Stockholm-metro-stub