Stockholm Metro
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The Stockholm Metro, or Stockholms tunnelbana, is the metro system in Stockholm, Sweden. The system has three main lines and one hundred stations, 47 of which are subterranean and 53 are surface stations.
- The Green line has 49 stations: 9 subterranean and 37 surface stations.
- The Red line has 35 stations: 20 subterranean and 15 surface stations.
- The Blue line has 20 stations: 19 subterranean and 1 surface stations.
The first part of the metro, was opened in 1950, part of the Green line. The Red line was introduced in 1964, and the Blue line in 1974. The coverage has been growing since the start, with the latest addition done to the Green line in 1994.
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Stockholm's metro is well known for its decoration; it has been called the longest art exhibit in the world. Several of the stations (especially on the Blue line) are left with the bedrock exposed, crude and unfinished, or as part of the decorations. At the Rissne station, an informative wall fresque about the history of Earth's civilizations runs all along both sides of the platform.
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The metro system is owned by the Stockholm County Council, which has contracted the operation to Connex. The Stockholm Metro was the site of distribution for the first edition of Metro, now a world-wide chain of free newspapers.
See also
External links
- Stockholm Transport (http://www.sl.se/english/) - Official site (English)
- Stockholm Transport (http://www.sl.se/) - Official site (Swedish)
- The Stockholm Subway System (http://web.telia.com/~u85707614/eng.htm)
- Stockholm (http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/sto/stockhlm.htm) - at UrbanRail.net
- Photo of the Vagn 2000 (http://www.it.kth.se/~aschmidt/vagn2000.jpg)sv:Stockholms tunnelbana
