Stockholm East Station

Stockholm East Station
Stockholm East Station
	The Drottning Kristinas Väg entrance to the station
General information
Location	Stockholm, ; Sweden
Coordinates	59°20′46″N 18°4′17″E / 59.34611°N 18.07139°E
Elevation	26 m (85 ft) AMSL
Owned by	Storstockholms Lokaltrafik
Operated by	Roslagståg
Line(s)	Roslagsbanan: 27, 28, 29
Platforms	3
Tracks	6
Connections	Tekniska högskolan; (Stockholm Metro)
Construction
Architect	Albin Stark (1932 building)
History
Opened	1884; October 7, 1932 (current building)
Passengers
2019	15,900 boarding per weekday
Services
Location
Location

Stockholm East Station (Swedish: Stockholms östra station) or Stockholm Ö is a railway station on the Roslag Railway in Stockholm, Sweden.

The present station was inaugurated in 1932 and located on Valhallavägen in northeastern central Stockholm, close to the Royal Institute of Technology (Tekniska Högskolan), replacing an older provisional station from 1884 which was located some hundred metres to the north. Originally, the building had the offices of SRJ, the company owning and managing the Roslag Railway. There are still offices in the building for the company which is operating the traffic at present.

The building also includes a restaurant, which has the same interior as when the building was new, something which is appreciated by the customers. The restaurant is well known as a place where supporters of sports club Djurgårdens IF like to go, as it is relatively close to the Stockholm Olympic Stadium, the classic former home field of Djurgårdens IF football team.^[2]^[3]

It is located in conjunction with the Stockholm metro station Tekniska högskolan. It is now the southern end station of the Roslag Railway. Earlier, some trains continued on a tram line to Engelbrektsplan next to Humlegården.

The station makes up the background in the 2011 Swedish movie Stockholm Östra, starring Mikael Persbrandt and Iben Hjejle.^[4]

Future

Roslagsbanan is to be diverted to a new terminus at T-Centralen, where all lines of the Stockholm Metro cross, and as such, Stockholms Ö is planned to be closed. Once the extension from the Universitetet station to Odenplan and T-Centralen is built, the stretch of track to Stockholms östra will be dismantled to make way for 500 apartments.^[5]

Gallery

Platform 5 during daytime
Platform 5 at night
As seen from Nymble, the Students' Union building of the Royal Institute of Technology
The station in 1935. To the left a train can be seen on the track to Engelbrektsplan which existed at the time

References

^ "Fakta om SL och regionen 2019" (PDF) (in Swedish). Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. p. 54. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
^ "Östra Station Järnvägsrestaurangen". Östra Station Järnvägsrestaurangen. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
^ Eli Åhman Owetz (11 March 2009). "Från Kafferepet till middag på Östra station". Femtiotalsjakten. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
^ "Lyfter inte över klichéerna". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 20 October 2011.
^ "Så ska Roslagsbanan till city byggas snabbare". mitti.se (in Swedish). 6 February 2019.