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The first central control room of the Stockholm Metro - 1959 (digitaltmuseum.se)

submitted 5 days ago by stoy@lemmy.zip to c/ccp@discuss.online

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This is the first central control room of the Stockholm Metro, it controlled what is now known as the green line.

Before this central facility, there were two control rooms as the Stockholm Metro had started as two separate systems which were later connected.

For those who want to learn more about the history of communications (with a focus on radio) used in public transport in Stockholm, I recommend this (Swedish) website, it is very informative:

https://fordonsradio.se/

As for the photo I linked, it is licensed CC-BY-NC, sadly the original photographer is unknown at this time.

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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I was curious, so I translated parts of the website (it’s under the Icarus Tunnelcentralen section) using whatever is built into my browser right now.

The control board did not indicate or operate any train positions, it was reserved for the respective switchgear in Johanneshov and Alvik.

If you zoom in on some of the additional images you can see that it did seem to rotate the bits to indicate switch positions, but I could be wrong!

Incredible system, very cool photos!