Västerhaninge railway station
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Västerhaninge  | |||||||||||
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 Västerhaninge station | |||||||||||
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| Location | Västerhaninge, Haninge Municipality, Stockholm County Sweden | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 59°7′3″N 18°6′3″E / 59.11750°N 18.10083°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Swedish Transport Administration | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
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| Station code | Vhe | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1901 | ||||||||||
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Västerhaninge is a station on the Stockholm commuter rail network, located in Västerhaninge within Haninge Municipality, 31.1 km from Stockholm Central Station.
The travel time by train to Stockholm City or Nynäshamn is approximately 30 minutes. The number of boarding passengers on a winter weekday is estimated at 4,500.[1] The station is the terminus for some services.
The land for the station and surrounding infrastructure was acquired in 1900, with the station area taken from the Erikslund property, while the tracks were built on land from the Västerhaninge rectory. The construction altered local roads, with Klockargatan being rerouted parallel to the railway before crossing it via a pedestrian path with a turnstile. A bridge now exists at approximately the same location.
The original station building was designed by architect Ferdinand Boberg and featured a distinctive yellow wooden facade with a "fish scale" panel design. The building was demolished in 1974.[2] A separate railway worker's house, initially a small track watchman's hut, was expanded into the railway master's residence. The station was managed by multiple stationmasters between 1901 and 1967.[2]
During the mid and late 1990s, the station underwent renovations, including an expanded rail yard, direct connections between buses and trains, a platform accessible via a pedestrian tunnel that also helped connectivity between western and eastern Västerhaninge, new station buildings on the side platform and at the pedestrian and bicycle tunnel, as well as heated waiting areas on the platforms.[3]
