In 2024 I visited every Tunnelbana station in Stockholm. All 100 of them. The procedure is tried and tested and has been the same for eighteen years of merseytart.com.
- take a train to a station
- take a photo with the station sign outside to prove I've been there
- walk to the next one
Then the procedure is reversed. Sometimes I simply walk outside, take the photo and walk back in, but so long as I pass through the ticket gates, that's fine. The important thing is that picture proving I was there. I've done it literally hundreds of times.
Which is why it was annoying when I got back to England, looked through my photos to write this blog, and realised I'd missed one. I'd forgotten to take one single sign picture.
I'm not saying that I took the ferry from Helsinki to Stockholm specifically to go to Kärrtorp. I went back to the stations of the Blue Line to coo and sigh and take more pictures. I wandered round the city. I stayed overnight in a nice hotel. I got a flight back to Manchester the next morning at a cheaper price than if I'd flown from Helsinki.
What I will say is that when I walked to Slussen station from the ferry port, the very first train I got was a Green number 17 train going south to Skarpnåck. I traveled seven stations. I got off at Kärrtorp. I went through the ticket barriers into the little pedestrian plaza outside, stood in front of the station sign, and took a picture.
Then I turned round and walked back up to the platform and got another train. Job done.
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