Stocksund railway station

Stocksund
Roslagsbanan railway station
The present Stocksund station, view from the north.
General information
Location	Stocksund, Danderyd Municipality Sweden
Coordinates	59.3848°N 18.0438°E / 59.3848; 18.0438
Line(s)	Roslagsbanan
Platforms	2 side platforms
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	1890 (1890)
Rebuilt	1904, 1996
Passengers
2019	350 boarding per weekday
Services
Preceding station SL Local & Light Rail Following station Universitetet towards Stockholms östra Roslagsbanan Line 29 Mörby towards Näsbypark

The former Stocksund station, view from southwest. Service in the station building ceased in the 1970s and the station was moved from this location in 1996, but the building still stands today (2013).

Stocksund railway station, Stocksunds station, is a railway station at Roslagsbanan, serving Stocksund in Danderyd Municipality, a bit north of Stockholm.

Stocksund station is now a simple railway stop, where only the trains on the way between Stockholm East Station and Näsbypark stop. It is situated 4.6 km from Stockholm East Station.

History

The original Stocksund station was situated some hundred metres to the south east of the present one and was opened in 1890. The station building there was built in 1904. Sigge Cronstedt was the architect for this and other station buildings along Roslagsbanan.

Stocksund station used to be a junction, connecting the railway to a short standard gauge tram line through Stocksund, the so-called Långängsbanan terminating at Långängen, and there were also tracks to the Stocksund harbour, which was just nearby the railway station. The tram line was intended to be the beginning of a big tram rail network in Stocksund and Djursholm and also to be connected to the Stockholm city tram network, but of this came naught and in 1934 the tracks were converted to the narrow gauge of Roslagsbanan so the same waggons could be used. In 1966 the tram line was finally closed and the connection to the harbour was also closed, making Stocksund just a stop for passenger traffic on Roslagsbanan.

This old station was closed in 1996, replaced by a new station by the same name some hundred metres to the north west, set where a new bridge over Stocksundet and a new, straighter line of the railway allows higher speed for the trains.

Stocksundet from southwest, with the motorway bridge and the present railway bridge in the centre of the image, and pylons for the old railway bridge and the old station building seen to the right. (September 2012)