Blackeberg metro station is a station on the

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of the

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 colou ...

. It is located in the district of

Blackeberg Blackeberg is a suburb of Stockholm built in the 1950s, and is part of the Bromma borough. Blackeberg was originally a croft first mentioned in 1599. The croft was demolished in 1861 by Knut Ljunglöf, who built a house, a stable, a mill and a sa ...

, which is part of the borough of

Bromma Bromma () is a borough (''stadsdelsområde'') in the western part of Stockholm, Sweden, forming part of the Stockholm Municipality. Bromma is primarily made up of Bromma Parish and Västerled Parish. The fourth largest airport in Sweden and the th ...

in the west of the city of Stockholm. The station has a single

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, with access from a station building spanning the tracks. Two thirds of the platform is located outdoors and one third is located in a rock tunnel under Blackebergsplan. The distance to Slussen is . The station was inaugurated on 26 October 1952 as a part of the section of line between

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and

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. The station building was designed by

Peter Celsing Peter Elof Herman Torsten Folke von Celsing (January 29, 1920 – March 16, 1974) was a Swedish modernist architect. Biography Celsing was born in Stockholm, Sweden and was the son of bank executive Folke von Celsing and Margareta (née Norstr ...

, who was head of the architectural office of

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, the city owned public transport company. The building stands on the northern side of Blackebergsplan and has entrances from the square and, at a lower level, Vinjegatan. The ticket hall floor is at the Vinjegaten level, and a monumental double staircase leads down from the Blackebergsplan entry. The hall has a square floor plan with sides, and its roof is a flat, free-span dome of reinforced concrete, with an untreated surface. The building is blue-rated by the

Stockholm City Museum The Stockholm City Museum ( sv, Stadsmuseet i Stockholm) is a museum documenting, preserving and exhibiting the history of Stockholm. The museum is housed in Södra Stadshuset at Slussen on Södermalm. The building was completed in 1685. In the 1 ...

, which means "that the buildings are judged to have extremely high cultural-historical values". The tunnel section of the station is decorated with green, blue and yellow tiles. As part of ''Art in the Stockholm metro'' project, the station received naturalistic paintings on glazed clinker by Ruben Heleander in 1987.

Gallery

File:Blackebergs torg juni 2011.jpg, Entrance to station from Blackebergsplan, 2011 File:Blackebergs tunnelbanestation October 2016 02.jpg, Ticket hall seen from Blackebergsplan stairs, 2016 File:Blackebergs stationsbyggnad, dec 2018b.jpg, Stairs and lift to platform, 2018 File:Women with pram in Blackeberg tube station in Stockholm.jpg, Stairs from platform, date unknown File:Blackeberg metro 13 oktober 2018 10.jpg, Underground part of platform, 2018

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Images of Blackeberg station
Green line (Stockholm metro) stations Railway stations opened in 1952 Railway stations in Sweden opened in the 1950s {{Stockholm-metro-stub