Stockholm Central Station

History

The station was built between 1867 and 1871 with Adolf W. Edelsvärd as the architect. Until 1925 the tracks led into the station but during a renovation 1925–1927 the tracks were moved to the west and the former track hall was converted into a 119 m long, 28 m wide, and 13 m high waiting hall. During the renovation the station was extended to the south through the construction of the southern pavilion. This part of the station currently houses a conference facility. Next to the conference facility is the royal waiting hall where the royal family waits when travelling by train.

In 1951 the facade towards Vasagatan was changed and given a more simplified look. In 1958 an underground passage to T-Centralen was opened. In 2017 the commuter trains moved to a separate station, Stockholm City Station, 1 km away.

In 2011 Jernhusen, a real estate company in Stockholm, found a way to channel the body heat from the hordes of commuters passing through Stockholm's Central Station to warm another building that is just across the road.

Traffic

The Stockholm Central station was the busiest station on the Stockholm commuter rail, with about 53,000 boarding the trains and about as many disembarking every weekday (as of 2005). The commuter rail used two island platforms, one for tracks 13 and 14 (southbound trains) and one for tracks 15 and 16 (northbound trains). Each platform has entries with entry gates from the lower level and a ticket sales office on the upper level with an entry from Klarabergsviadukten. From 2017 the commuter trains moved to a separate underground station, known as Stockholm City Station.

The commuter trains go on their own tracks along Ostkustbanan via Tomteboda, and after Karlberg Station they go underneath the other tracks to avoid conflict with long-distance and regional trains. After the centre, they join the Stockholm connection railway to the south, which has had two tracks since 1871. In 2006, a decision was finally made to construct Citybanan, a new track in a tunnel, and Stockholm City Station, a new station for commuter trains below T-Centralen. The construction was started in January 2009 and was completed in 2017.

Bus

A bus terminal called Cityterminalen is located adjacent to the main station, directly connected by a short pedestrian tunnel.

Local services offered by SL stop at various bus stops close to the main station's exits.

Metro station

Services on all lines of the Stockholm Metro network are provided on a separate station named T-Centralen. An underground pedestrian passage connects it to Stockholm Central Station.

Services

• Arlanda Express
  • Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
• SJ
  • Intercity services
    • Falun via Uppsala, Avesta Krylbo, Borlänge
    • Karlstad via Katrineholm, Hallsberg
    • Gothenburg via Södertälje Syd, Katrineholm, Hallsberg, Skövde, Herrljunga
    • Mora via Uppsala, Avesta Krylbo, Borlänge
    • Östersund via Uppsala, Gävle, Bräcke
    • Sundsvall via Uppsala, Gävle
    • Malmö via Norrköping, Nässjö, Lund
  • Night train
    • Luleå via Uppsala, Gävle, Sundsvall, Umeå
    • Narvik (Norway) via Umeå, Boden, Gällivare, Kiruna
    • Storlien via Uppsala, Gävle, Sundsvall, Östersund, Åre
    • Malmö via Norrköping, Nässjö, Alvesta
    • Berlin (Germany) via Norrköping, Linköping, Nässjö, Alvesta, Lund, Malmö
  • SJ regional rail services
    • Gävle via Uppsala, some service continues to Ljusdal
    • Gothenburg via Västerås, Örebro, Hallsberg, Skövde, Herrljunga, Alingsås
    • Uppsala
    • Västerås via Enköping,
    • Hallsberg via Enköping, Västerås, Arboga, Örebro
  • X 2000, also called "SJ Snabbtåg" since 11 December 2011, Express Intercity services
    • Åre via Uppsala, Sundsvall, Östersund (seasonal during ski season in Åre)
    • Arvika via Hallsberg, Karlstad
    • Borås via Skövde, Herrljunga
    • Malmö via Norrköping, Nässjö, Lund
    • Copenhagen (Denmark) via Norrköping, Nässjö, Lund, Malmö
    • Gothenburg via Katrineholm, Skövde
    • Oslo (Norway) via Karlstad, Arvika
    • Nässjö via Norrköping
    • Sundsvall via Uppsala, Gävle
    • Uddevalla via Skövde, Herrljunga
    • Strömstad via Skövde, Herrljunga, Uddevalla (during summer holidays)
• Mälartåg
  • Regional rail
    • Örebro via Södertälje Syd, Strängnäs, Eskilstuna, Arboga
    • Hallsberg via Södertälje, Katrineholm
    • Norrköping via Södertälje, Nyköping, Kolmården
• Snälltåget
  • Intercity
    • Malmö via Norrköping, Linköping, Nässjö, Lund
  • Night train
    • Åre (Seasonal)
    • Berlin (Germany) via Copenhagen (Denmark), Hamburg (Germany) (Seasonal)
• VR Snabbtåg Sverige
  • Intercity
    • Gothenburg via Katrineholm, Skövde, Alingsås
• Tågab
  • Intercity
    • Karlstad
• Flygbussarna (bus departing from Cityterminalen)
  • Arlanda Airport (ARN)
  • Bromma Airport (BMA)
  • Skavsta Airport (NYO)
  • Västerås Airport (VST)

Mural art

The landscape paintings in the central hall were painted by two Swedish artists.

Natan Johansson was born on 31 august in Kalmar 1893, and died November 1951. He was a Swedish painter who studied at the Art Academy in Stockholm from 1916 to 1920. For a long time he was responsible for the decoration art at the royal dramatic theater. He also painted a series of religious posters for school use.

John Ericsson was born on 12 June 1877 in Norrsunda, and died 12 november 1951. He was a Swedish scenographer and a decoration painter, who worked at the royal dramatic theater at the same time as Natan Johansson. They are nowadays mostly known for their landscape motifs on the east side of the central departures hall in the main train station in Stockholm; their paintings were completed in 1927 while the station was being built.

The paintings

Saltoloukta. In this painting we see a lake in the color blue mixed with light green, sunlight cutting through the clouds over the mountains surrounded by bushes and trees. The emotion is harmonic and calm.

Vedasjön, Nordingrå. In this painting we see trees in autumn surrounding  a river, the colors are drab. the emotion that occur are sadness and yearning

Åreskutan. A winter land painting, there are multiple pine trees with heavy snow weighing down on the branches. Snow covers the mountains we can see in the background. the colors are dark and showing that is night.

Leksands kyrka. In this painting we can see the church in the middle surrounded by multiple trees with heavy snow on them, in the center in front of the church there are a few people forming a line away from the church. is light and frosty

Uddeholms Herrgård. In the center is a large white building framed by two large oak trees, in front of the white building there is a roundabout, to the left of the roundabout we get a glimpse of water. The colors are real and natural

Vadstena slott. Is a painting of a castle surrounded by water, the painting is painted in ¾ angle, on the far left there is a sailboat. The colors are natural and real

Varbergs fästning. This is a painting of the ocean hitting the shore and in the background there is a level and a house on top of it, the colors of the rocks are earth colors, the water is aquaphor.

Dybäcks herrgård. In this painting we can see the entree of a chateau  framed by a lot of green nature, The path to the entre is a bridge over water, in the background we can see a yard.

References

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