Stockholm Metro - Zinkensdamm Station | Sweden | 22/04/24

Zinkensdamm is a Stockholm metro station in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. The station was opened on 5 April 1964 as part of the first stretch of the Red line, between T-Centralen and Fruängen. The surrounding area is known for the Zinkensdamms IP sports grounds, the Tantolunden Park, the Drakenberg area, and the STF Zinken hostel. The Red line (Swedish: Röda linjen; officially Metro 2, but called Tub 2 ("Tube 2") internally), is one of the three Stockholm Metro lines. It has a total of 36 stations, of which four are cut and cover, 16 are tunneled, and 15 are on the surface. The line is a total of 41.238 kilometres (25.624 mi) long. It consists of four branches with terminals in Fruängen and Norsborg in the southwest and Mörby center and Ropsten in the northeast. The "Red line" designation began in the late-1970s, and officially only since the 1990s, and comes from the fact that the route has been marked in red on Storstockholms Lokaltrafik's maps at least since the 1970s. Previously, the Red line had been coloured orange on the system map, but as new maps were printed with changes, the colour became increasingly redder in the 1980s. Route and stations The Red line is served by two routes—lines 13 and 14—and carried 507,850 passengers per working day (2019), or approximately 128 million per year (2005). Line 13 runs between Norsborg and Ropsten, while line 14 operates Fruängen-Mörby centrum. Regular daytime service is a 5-minute headway on line 14 between Mörby center and Liljeholmen, and 10 minutes at other times. During rush hours there is a 5-minute service between Alby and Sätra-Ropsten and also along line 14, providing a train every 2.5 minutes on the joint stretch between Östermalmstorg and Liljeholmen (i.e. 24 trains per hour). The longest tunnels are between Gamla stan and Bergshamra (8.5 km (5.3 mi)), and Gamla stan to Gärdet (4.5 km (2.8 mi), 2.4 km (1.5 mi) in common with the Green line).