Kymlinge, the ghost station on the Stockholm underground. A station for the planned but never completed suburb near Kista's technology-oriented neighborhood. A station where only the dead are said to exit, and where only the long lost ghost train, the "Silverpilen" travel. A station with underground platforms and additional space underneath.
I had heard about this, but had forgotten all about it until my friend Johan happened to mention it; he had gone running in the area. I had one evening left in the area, a rainy evening, but decided I wanted to check this out.
The question, as always, was whether one could enter this place. Would be nice to collect another underground location that I have visited. However... the station is unused, but it is not on an unused track. The subway trains to and from the nearby Kista station run through the station every few minutes.
I kept searching for a possible emergence or secondary exit. But I did not find anything on top of the station. At the other end of the station the ground drops away and the trains run on a bridge. Locked metal doors lead under the station, but ... indeed locked. And these doors are anyway far away from the station's passenger platforms, so maybe they wouldn't have led anywhere anyway.
The tracks are blocked by heavy metal fences and barbwire. There was of course a door for the maintenance personnel, with a lock:
It did turn out, however, that the door was unlocked.
This would have offered a way in. However, across the subway tracks with exposed train power line on the side. In a moment of uncharacteristic sanity, I decide to not cross the tracks. I'd rather stay a bit further away from exposed electricity lines. And also I didn't like to have to run to the station platform's darkness before the next trains to arrive, or have the drivers alert if they'd see me in the platform. Lame, I know :-)
So I did not get to visit the station. Maybe some day, perhaps they will have a tour or something...
More information about the Kymlinge station can be found in Wikipedia, Atlas Obscura, Kynerd, Story tours, Stockholm's Hjärtä (recommended!) and Robert Eklund.
The station's platforms look like this:
Here's the bridge-side metal doors:
Kista is an interesting combination of extremes, by the way. On one hand there's extreme high tech being developed there, with 30+ story skyscrapers dotting the landscape. Then again, there's old farm houses... and forests.
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