Neil Hopcroft

Around the back of Valhalla Avenue, just by the terminus of the Roslagbanan is the Kungliga Tekniska högskolan.

Just south of Täby Centrum the Roslagsbanan splits into two different lines at Roslags Näsby.

A few stops from Djursholms Örsby is Täby Centrum, another part of the sprawling suburbia of Stockholm.

Coming back from Näsby on the Roslagsbanan I changed at Djursholms Örsby to explore a different branch.

Taking the narrow guage railway from Mörby, Näsby Park looked like an interesting place to visit. Its not. The Näsby Slott, although rebuilt after its fire in 1897 now houses a conference centre and has the air of somewhere with attack dogs roaming the grounds on weekends. So I didn’t explore inside the razor wire fence.

At the southern end of the green line is Hagästra, predictably another concrete wasteland of suburbia, with little in the way of redeeming features except for a shop selling delicious strawberries.

Hidden elsewhere in the palace gardens there is a gothic tower.

At the bottom of the garden of Drottningholm Slott is a Chinese pavillion (not a very exciting page at the time of writing, hopefully it’ll get filled out a little over time).

Following the road across the bridge from Nockeby over the small island of Kärsön you get an impressive view across the water to Drottningholm Slott, the official residence of the Swedish royal family. Indeed, as I was there a pair of Canadian tourists were nearly run over by a very enthusiastic chap in an understated but clearly extremely […]

I took the train toward Hässelby Strand but changed at Alvik onto the Nockebybanan – a tram/light rail line that wiggles its way through the suburbs to Nockeby. Nockeby itself is another new suburban area near Mälaren lakeside.