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Kymlinge () is an area of
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, Stockholm County,
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. It is mostly a recreational park, part of which is a nature reserve ( Igelbäcken).


History

The area has been inhabited since the
Iron Age The Iron Age () is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progre ...
. The name is known since 1347, then as ''Kymmelinghe''. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the area was still used as a farm. Since the farm was abandoned, the area has been kept as a park. In the 1970s there were plans to develop the area as a suburb, mainly to accommodate government agencies, state-owned enterprises and other offices moving out from central
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(they needed larger offices). The plans were eventually scrapped, for several reasons. The suburbanisation of Stockholm had already peaked, and some government agencies were instead relocated to other cities in Sweden. Also, the municipality (which is the smallest in Sweden by area) wanted to preserve the area as a nature resort, so it was left untouched. Plans to develop the area are discussed every few years, especially around elections.


Metro station

In the early 1970s, the planning of a
metro station A metro station or subway station is a train station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway". A station provides a means for passengers to purchase tickets, board trains, and evacuate the syste ...
in Kymlinge, located between
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and
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stations, on the blue line to
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, was already well advanced. The transit authority
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decided to go on with the building, but the station was left unfinished, and the metro line was opened in 1977 without it. If the area is ever developed in the future it will be possible to carry on with the work. At the beginning of the 21st century such plans were again discussed. Kymlinge is sometimes called a "
ghost station A ghost station is a closed or never opened train station through which revenue-service passenger trains (especially rapid transit trains) pass but at which they do not stop. The term is also sometimes used for any unused underground station o ...
" or an "abandoned station", but the fact is that the project has simply been put off indefinitely. The station is said to be haunted by The Silver Train of Stockholm, a ghost train.


See also

* North End tube station - never-opened station on the
London Underground The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or as the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. The Undergro ...
. * Haxo - a never-opened station on the
Paris Metro Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
* Porte Molitor - never-opened station on the
Paris Métro The Paris Métro (, , or , ), short for Métropolitain (), is a rapid transit system serving the Paris metropolitan area in France. A symbol of the city, it is known for its density within the capital's territorial limits, uniform architectur ...
. * The Silver Train of Stockholm, the "ghost train" of the Stockholm Metro, sometimes associated with Kymlinge * The Philip K. Dick short story " The Commuter" involving a station called "Macon Heights". *
Ryugyong Hotel The Ryugyong Hotel (; sometimes spelled as Ryu-Gyong Hotel), or Yu-Kyung Hotel, is a tall unfinished pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its name ( "capital of willows") is also one of the historical names for Pyongyang. The ...
, of Pyongyang, a hotel office project that stood incomplete for a decade, once featured on North Korean propaganda, such as stamps etc, airbrushed out, dubbing it the Phantom hotel.


References


External links


Images of Kymlinge 'ghost' station

Map of the Kymlinge section of the Igelbäcken nature reserve (white outline)
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