Kymlinge
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Sundbyberg Municipality
Sundbyberg Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, just north of the capital Stockholm. Sundbyberg is wholly within the Stockholm urban area and has a 100% urban population....
, Stockholm County
Stockholm County
Stockholm County is a county or län on the Baltic sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland County. It also borders Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. The city of Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. Stockholm County is divided by the historic provinces of Uppland and Södermanland...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. It is mostly a recreational park, part of which is a nature reserve (Igelbäcken
Igelbäcken
Igelbäcken is a small stream in northern Stockholm, Sweden. The drainage area, part of the national park Ekoparken and divided into several nature reserves, is shared by the municipalities of Järfälla, Sollentuna, Solna, Stockholm, and Sundbyberg....
).
History
The area has been inhabited since the Iron AgeIron Age
The Iron Age is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The early period of the age is characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel. The adoption of such material coincided with other changes in society, including differing...
. 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 Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
. The plans were eventually scrapped, for several reasons. The suburbanization 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 stationStockholm Metro
The Stockholm Metro is a metro 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 seven lines numbered from 10 to 19, in three groups identified by a color: the Green, Red and Blue lines...
in Kymlinge, located between Hallonbergen
Hallonbergen metro station
Hallonbergen is a station on the blue line of the Stockholm Metro, located in Sundbyberg. The station was opened on August 31, 1975. Inside of the station is covered by the kids paintings which conveys a really good feeling of happiness.-External links:*...
and Kista
Kista metro station
Kista metro station is a station on the blue line of the Stockholm Metro, located in the district of Kista, northern Stockholm. The distance to Kungsträdgården is 15.9 km. It was opened on 5 June 1977. The station is the only one on the blue line above ground.-External links:*...
stations, on the blue line to Akalla
Akalla
Akalla is a district in Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden. Akalla has 8,153 inhabitants as of December 31, 2007, in which immigrants, mostly from Asia, make up 64 % of the population....
, was already well advanced. The transit authority Storstockholms Lokaltrafik
Storstockholms Lokaltrafik
Storstockholms Lokaltrafik AB, , commonly referred to as SL, is the organisation running all of the land based public transport systems in Stockholm County....
decided to go on with the building, but the station was left unfinished
Unfinished building
An unfinished building is a building where construction work was abandoned or on-hold at some stage or only exists as a design...
, and the metro line was opened in 1975 without it. If the area is ever exploited 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
Ghost station
Ghost stations is the usual English translation for the German word Geisterbahnhöfe. This term was used to describe certain stations on Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin's division during the Cold War...
” 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 Silverpilen
Silverpilen
Silverpilen is a Stockholm Metro train which features in several urban legends alleging sightings of the train's "ghost".-Production and history:...
ghost train.
See also
- SilverpilenSilverpilenSilverpilen is a Stockholm Metro train which features in several urban legends alleging sightings of the train's "ghost".-Production and history:...
, the "ghost train" of the Stockholm Metro, sometimes associated with Kymlinge - The Philip K. DickPhilip K. DickPhilip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...
short story "The CommuterThe CommuterThe Commuter is a science-fiction short story written by Philip K. Dick.-Plot:It tells the story of a railway station manager who encounters the eponymous commuter who testifies to the existence of a town that cannot be found on any normal map...
" involving a station called "Macon Heights".