Alvik metro station is a station on the Green line of the Stockholm metro, and on the

Tvärbanan Tvärbanan () is a light-rail, light rail line in Stockholm, Sweden, which runs largely in a semicircle south, west and north around central Stockholm - crosswise to the otherwise radial Stockholm Metro, metro and Stockholm commuter rail, commut ...

and

Nockebybanan Nockebybanan () is a tram/light-rail line between Nockeby and Alvik in the western suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden. The long line is part of the Storstockholms Lokaltrafik public transport network, and connects with the Stockholm metro and Tvärban ...

lines of Stockholm tramways. It is located on the border between the districts of

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and Alvik, which are part of the borough of

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in the west of the city of Stockholm. The station is one of the intermediate termini along the northern section of the Green line, with line 18 trains normally terminating, and is also the terminus of the Nockebybanan. Alvik station has tracks on two levels, both above ground. The higher level has two

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s aligned east-west and serving four tracks. The outer pair of tracks are through tracks used by metro trains, whilst the inner pair of tracks are used to terminate Nockebybanan trams, thus providing

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between the Nockebybanan and metro. The lower level, which is at street level, has a pair of

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s, aligned north-south and just to the west of the higher level platforms, which are used by trams on the Tvärbanan. At the west end of the station, a complex set of elevated tracks ensures that metro trains and trams on both lines are segregated from each other. The metro and the Nockeby tramway are also connected by shared tracks (electrified with both third rail and overhead lines) to the nearby tram depot. Metro trains terminating at Alvik use reversing tracks within the depot to switch between westbound and eastbound metro platforms. A curved tunnel also connects the depot to the lower Tvärbanan tracks, thus allow stock interchange between the two tram lines.

History

The site of Alvik station was situated on the

tram line, which linked central Stockholm with Nockeby and opened in stages between 1914 and 1929. The tram line ran in the streets to the east of Alvik, but ran on segregated track with frequent level crossings to the west. In 1934 the old Tranebergsbron bridge just east of Alvik was replaced by a new bridge with segregated tram tracks. In 1944, the tram line was opened from Islandstorget to Alvik, with the trams continuing into the city centre over the same tracks as the Nockebybanan. The Ängbybanan was designed and built for use by the future metro, and was segregated without level crossings. On 26 October 1952, the first northern stretch of the metro opened between

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and

Vällingby Vällingby () is a suburban district in Västerort, the western part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It is notable for being one of the first modern planned suburbs in Sweden. Vällingby was inaugurated in 1954 as part of Stockholm's post-war ...

, including Alvik station. This made use of both the Ängbybanan alignment to the west of Alvik, and the former tram tracks across the Tranebergsbron to the east. The Nockebybanan remained operated by trams, but the conversion of the Tranebergsbron tracks meant it was truncated at Alvik and cut off from the rest of the Stockholm tramway network, so Alvik station was designed to provide

between Nockebybanan trams and metro trains. In 2000 the

tramway was connected to Alvik. An extension to

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was opened in autumn 2013 via a tunnel towards Ulvsunda.

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Images of Alvik
{{Stockholm metro Green line (Stockholm metro) stations Railway stations in Sweden opened in 1952