September 30, 1973
Operations began for a rapid transit station within the Östermalm district in Sweden’s capital city of Stockholm. This station was built as part of an extension of Line 14 of the Stockholm Metro’s Metro 2 line, which would be officially designated as the Red Line during the 1990s.
The station is only about a four-minute walk to Stockholm Olympic Stadium, which had been designed by architect Torben Grut (1871-1945) and was originally used as a venue for the 1912 Olympic Games. The stadium is widely known in that region of Sweden as Stadion (the Swedish word for stadium) and this moniker has also become the name for the nearby station.
Stadion metro station, which has two tracks and an island platform, is 115 feet (35 meters) below ground. The key features of the station include colorful decorations that were created by artists Enno Hallek (1931-2025) and Åke Pallarp (1933-2013).
The Red Line of the Stockholm Metro, which is served by two routes (Lines 13 and 14), has 36 stations altogether and a total length of 26,6 miles (41,2 kilometers). The accompanying photo of Stadion metro station was taken in 2025.
Photo Credit: HartOve (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)
For more information on Stadion metro station, please check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadion_metro_station
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