The Cheeky Hidden Features On Stockholm's Metro Trains

Over the last few years, Stockholm has been introducing a fleet of shiny new trains on the city's metro system. And it didn't take long for people to notice they had some cheeky hidden features...
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[@-_James_-]

In Oslo sometimes - very occasionally - the departure board will display the correct time a train will leave.

[@TalesOfWar]

We have a the same Easter egg here in most of the UK too! Sometimes it won't say cancelled too!

[@pieterfaes6263]

In Belgium sometimes - very occasionally - they actually update their site so it correctly displays _if_ your train will leave.

[@Jonsku124Transit]

Same in Tampere, Finland, on the trams! It is very rare though... 😂😂😂

[@kuria13]

we have the same one in spain!

[@stunlocked94]

Over here in Germany our delays are _sometimes_ single digit. That's a very rare occasion, too.

[@MHDebidour]

-"Hi you came to Stockholm to visit Gamla Stan ? the Royal Palace ? the historic City Hall" -"No way, I am here fo the metro's ventilation grill"

[@chainq68k]

The man has priorities, and we're all here for it!

[@tayne5009]

You can add the ABBA museum to that list

[@msand2396]

Also travelling to the end of the red line. Norsborg is so far out that many kind of just believe it to be a legend 🙂

[@Phelie315]

"but we're not here to see any of that"

[@vulduv]

There is also the world's (second/third (depending if you count a duplicate)) tallest chair swing, the world's largest scale model of the solar system, the sun of which sits in stockholm. And said sun is also the world's largest spherical building. (The Las Vegas sphere does not count. It's a giant billboard surrounding a much smaller building.) We apparently like big things here... Except sky scrapers... (Damn you Bromma airport...)

[@jonatanwestholm]

The automated announcer voice on the platforms when going south is male, and when going north is female. I've heard that this is a unique feature of the Stockholm metro.

[@officialmcdeath]

Lewisham station used to have directional differentiation back in the BR days - it was subsequently dropped, presumably for reasons of cost \m/

[@Teesbrough]

British Rail’s Southern Region adopted the same practice in the 1970s, though I can’t remember which of them did the ‘towards London’ announcements and which the ‘from London’. Nevertheless, the pair were husband and wife and both worked at the Science Museum in London.

[@jurajkovac8507]

I believe the Moscow Metro has a variation of this: male/female voice determines whether you're headed towards the center or away from it.

[@blueyez1980]

BART in the SF Bay Area does something similar, though the difference is a male voice is for even-numbered platforms, and female for odd-numbered platforms. www.bart.gov/news/articles/2009/news20090309

[@mikkelwf1984]

The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.. :D

[@MaxDuckwitz]

When arriving at "Köln-Bonn" airport you were greeted with the announcement "Willkommen in Bonn, Köln Bonn." which was a tribute to the famous "The name is Bond, James Bond" line and to the announcer being the German voice actor for Pierce Brosnan.

[@benndii]

I never thought of this as an easter egg, but you are absolutely right. 👍

[@jdpjamesp]

I've flown there a number of times and never heard that announcement!

[@jdpjamesp]

And I'm not saying it doesn't happen - I'm just disappointed I've not heard it.

[@lorenz07]

I also haven't heard it in a long time​@@jdpjamesp

[@KabonkNo1]

Thats funny for a german. (Almost) all other nations be like: Why on earth are they dubbing the film, it just ruins it.

[@Becky_Cooling]

'Please do not attempt to turn an actual TGV upside down' 😂😂😂😂

[@dominikschmalstieg2912]

There should be a special edition of Final Fantasy VI, where you can suplex a TGV instead of a steam train! (Or am I asking to much just for an Easter egg?)

[@princecharon]

A model or CGI version would be fair, if they set a Kaijuu (giant monster) film there. King Kong climbing the Eiffel Tower, anyone?

[@gnyrinn]

That's "Attach orbiter here, black side down" territory of joke.

[@HenryLoenwind]

Instructions unclear. Ended up in Wuppertal.

[@philvanderlaan5942]

Drunk college jocks ‘ now you tell us ‘

[@BrickishRail]

Ending off the video with "Another Town, Another Train" by ABBA is a wholly appropriate Easter Egg in of itself!

[@RustyPetterson]

That was driving me mad, I knew I recognised it! Thank you!

[@emmanuellevillacroux2769]

I, too, really appreciated the appropriate deep track.

[@nomadMik]

I always love the background music choice in Tim's videos, but the rapid track changing to stay on topic in this one was particularly impressive.

[@TheErador]

I almost always recognise the tune but can't always place the name of the track lol

[@russellgeisthardt9828]

Also "Dancing Queen" while showing the crowns

[@andyctube]

I didn't realise I needed to see Pac-Man air vents, but as it turns out, I do.

[@matsv201]

What about a Europa universalis ventilation grill?

[@andyctube]

​@@matsv201A strategy-based air vent game would be a masterful feat of railway engineering that would contribute immensely to anyone's daily commute. Absolutely.

[@matsv201]

@@andyctube i dont know what swedish game is the most iconic? Battlefield, EU sweet, minecraft, candy crush,

[@andyctube]

@@matsv201 Maybe a Basshunter "Vi sitter här i Venten och spelar lite Dota" Easter egg would work?

[@matsv201]

@@andyctube well.. I never played dota.. so I don't have a clue.

[@judacris]

As a wheelchair user, I very, very much appreciate the concern and the consideration for passengers with mobility issues on a crowded train, and the note about the Easter eggs being near wheelchair spaces. A very lovely addendum to the video.

[@annando]

I'm no wheelchair user, but nonetheless I really appreciate that in each video he explicitly mentions the accessibility of each place he visited.

[@AesirBear]

In the fabric pattern of the seats in this very model of metro train there is another sort of easter egg. At 04:13, on the seat in the bottom left corner, there is a silhouette of a person in the pattern. They don't appear on every seat, and there is supposedly several versions of them.

[@georgewhite1972]

Well spotted!!

[@u1zha]

Tim must be turning his plane around (or his TGV upside down) the moment he reads this comment

[@debug9424]

That pattern variation is also present on the second to last seat in the row to the right of that same shot

[@lauxmyth]

Took me a bit but for me the time stamp is 4:17. Good eye.

[@Fredrikgaard]

It represents people walking or standing on Sergels Torg, that has that triangular pattern on the ground.

[@javiskii]

As a tram designer, I'm now dying to do something like this. But as a junior at the beginning of my career, I'm deadly afraid to get fired for it xd

[@PlanWithoutChance]

DO IT!

[@steveaustin2686]

Don't tell anyone. They probably won't notice. :)

[@kevinfitzpatrick444]

0:13 Knowing Tim's appreciation for pedantry and a desire to avoid all the things I actually need to do, I tried to find if there was indeed a "9:15 to Doncaster". Turns out there is. In the morning a 09:15 train from Gilberdyke and in the evening a 21:15 from Goole.

[@TheTimTraveller]

This is absolutely Olympic level pedanticism. You win 100 golden pedantry points 👏👏👏

[@qwertyTRiG]

​​@@TheTimTraveller I don't do pedantic grammatical corrections on social media, with one exception: griping at people who say _pedantism/pedanticism_ when they mean _pedantry_

[@nzd3742]

@@qwertyTRiGPedanticism is a valid variant.

[@nomadMik]

​@@qwertyTRiGBut _panditism_ is a word that means institutionalised pedantry! Who do you think makes the golden points?! 😉

[@heroicnonsense]

People of my age prefer the 8:15 to Manchester. Although "Going Live!" was miles better.

[@Niinsa62]

The oak leaves might be a reference to Stockholm itself. In old timey Stockholm working class slang, the town was called Eken. Which means The Oak.

[@TheTimTraveller]

Ah I didn't know that! Thanks for the comment :)

[@matpk]

​@@TheTimTravellerGo to Stockholm City Museum. Ground floor look at the maps. They promote CCP propaganda there😅 but you have to look for it❗

[@freja9398]

There are also a lot of very old oak trees in Sweden and in Stockholm, especially in the royal domains. This is because oaks used to be trees that was protected so that the monarch were the only one allowed to cut them down!

[@Freedeeism]

Oak trees were protected in Sweden in the 16th century, so that they could be used as timber to build warships. The punishment for cutting down an oak tree during the period when Sweden was a major power was death - oak trees were the property of the king. Oak trees were protected right up until the 1830s, and this is why so many oak trees remain on Djurgården and throughout Sweden.

[@tinyderppotato5410]

in my family we still say eken🌳🌳🌳

[@57thorns]

The water represents the (for a city with a million people) exceptionally clean water, with the central water area actually safe to swim in.

[@TalesOfWar]

The quality and availability of drinking water in Sweden is something I note most Swedes are very proud of lol.

[@ABaumstumpf]

Hu nice. And here they build 2 dams, recreational areas with beaches and piers - only for some oldtimer residents to point out that they should test the water first cause there is still untreated sewage dumped into the river. Turns out, depending on the weather conditions, it ranges from just bad to actually dangerous. At the best days the water is still so dirty and contaminated that you should avoid swallowing anything and you can still get a rash, at the worst times you might by down with diarrhoea for a week or two.

[@matsv201]

Me who is from Sweden.... why would you not be able to swim in the water???

[@TalesOfWar]

@@matsv201 Because you have a government that doesn't care about the people, only about making money for their already rich friends who donate to your party and allow all the utility companies to dump raw sewage into the waterways. One of the many "Brexit benefits".

[@LegendaryHopOnBaby]

So TfL should use the poop emoji.

[@DE-li7jt]

Come to Zürich, ride an old Tram 2000 and walk to the very end of it. If you're not careful, you'll hit a knob in the floor which rings a very loud bell. This feature is locally know as the Agglofalle or agglomeration trap because it identifies non locals very steadily-

[@lakrids-pibe]

You are now engaged to my daughter, according to our ancient traditions.

[@moritzl7065]

I used to love "accidentally" stepping on that bell lol. It's great fun!

[@wangxrtom]

We have the same thing on the Hong Kong trams, loved to mess around the knob when I was a kid.

[@DaHitch]

And what is the actual purpose of this knob/bell?

[@thesunman]

@@DaHitch back in the day those old trams would have conductors back there that could use the bell thing to give signals to the driver

[@SREagle1]

In Halle, Germany, I was surprised by a *kids voice* suddenly announcing the next station of the local tram line. I then learned from a local friend, that several (not all) stations are announced by locals instead of professional speakers - including kids and sometimes using the local dialect and adding some additional infos about the station/surrounding area. That was done as part of a competition. Nice touch!

[@jwhite5008]

Around new year Moscow metro sometimes changed the announcer to a few known people like local singers who specifically recorded the lines for that. To be honest it was more cringe than anything else for me but some people were fine with it.

[@kain0m]

We have the same thing with some tram stations in Graz (Kids announcing). And also one of the worst English announcers I've heard so far.

[@sydmic8965]

In Leipzig it's the same in the centre, but way cringier than in Halle

[@ThedwarfsizedWorkshop]

@@sydmic8965 Also, Leipzig does it only during christmas time, right?

[@sydmic8965]

@@ThedwarfsizedWorkshop Not only on Christmas but other seasons and events too

[@VivienEsc]

I work at Alstom on the final assembly site of this metro and I got to know this Easter egg recently while visiting the production lines, your video will definitely be shared to my colleagues 😉 (Unfortunately I have no clue if there are more of these)

[@mikeromadin8744]

Alstom is a famous company where right hand doesn't know what left is doing! 😂😂😂😂

[@tha_tram_man]

västerås? alstom

[@manshenriksson]

@@tha_tram_man Probably Hennigsdorf

[@mgmacius]

@@mikeromadin8744not to mention bribes. I mean, unexpected bonuses for the decision makers

[@davebowman6497]

Yes, the C30 subway trains are built in Henningsdorf. See eg the Wikipedia article on the C30 trains. When the trains are delivered they are pulled on the Swedish train network from south Sweden to Stockholm. Search KZbin for at least one video of this being filmed. The C30s are transferred to the subway track network via a connection between it and the national rail system. If I recall correctly it is somewhere in the vicinity of Årstadal.

[@azahel542]

2:54 the genius idea of using music from Minecraft, a Swedish game, on this bit. Your use of music in storytelling is awesome as always!

[@ILoveWomen]

The music was all Swedish! Roxette, ABBA, Basshunter, etc.

[@matthewbrotman2907]

Except for the Pac-Man theme, obvs.

[@LordMalvernGames]

As an added bonus, the Minecraft song he played is called Sweden!

[@matpk]

​@@ILoveWomenGo to Stockholm City Museum. Ground floor look at the maps. They promote CCP propaganda there😅 but you have to look for it❗

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

The oak leaf is a reference to Stockholm being called Eken, or The Oak! A cool feature on Japanese systems around Tokyo is that each station has a different departure jingle! For Takadanobaba for example, its jingle is the Astro Boy theme music as the character is from there! Here are some of my favorite Easter eggs on North American rail systems: On the New Mexico Rail Runner commuter system, the sound when the doors close is the roadrunner's "Meep meep" from the Wile E. Coyote cartoons! On Montreal's REM, the front lights of the Alstom Metropolis Saint-Laurents were inspired by the Champlain Bridge! On the Montreal Metro, the melody of the MR-73 when the doors close purposefully matches the starting motor traction sounds of the trains! On the BMT Fourth Ave Line in NYC, there's an abandoned station with an amazing art installation meant to be seen from a moving train! The now abandoned Myrtle Avenue on the BMT Fourth Ave Line opened in June 1915 with the rest of the line. The station closed on July 16, 1956 for the reconstruction of the flying junction north of DeKalb Avenue to increase capacity for the entire BMT Division. The Brooklyn-bound platform was removed completely, but the Manhattan-bound platform still exists. In 1980, an artist named Bill Brand used this platform to create Masstransiscope. The artwork consists of 228 hand-painted panels that are behind a long slit light box. The idea was that from the trains passing, the paintings would look like they're moving! It was inspired by a zoetrope!

[@sjefkees]

Thanks for the NYC fact! Sadly half the time I'm on that train it's starting and stopping on its way to the bridge and the effect is somewhat diminished lol

[@lzh4950]

1 of SIngapore's 2 rail operators (SMRT) has now learnt from Tokyo & plays melodies at platforms 1 minute before the train arrives, with all platforms serving the same line in the same direction playing the same melody. The melodies are often from traditional local songs e.g. _Chan Mali Chan_ & 三轮车/輪車. When arriving at stations, the melody played on-board trains' PA systems also depends on whether it's an interchange station or not, while terminus stations get their own melodies. Some commuters find the melodies too long though

[@OlliWilkman]

In some of the restaurant cars on Finnish long-distance trains, the door to enter the car has a picture of a hand with fingers spread to indicate "push", but the hand in the picture has six fingers.

[@ThedwarfsizedWorkshop]

Inigo Montoya would like to have a word with the designer...

[@rodgermoss8975]

The designer was from Norfolk!.

[@Mathias_Eggimann]

Finland is famous for the heritage sickness gen. But i don't know if 6 fingers is a sickness .

[@red.aries1444]

@@Mathias_EggimannIt's called "Polydaktylie" and there are several genetic defects that can cause this symptom.

[@rawbin2K]

I believe the Heart represents the famous saying "Stockholm in my heart" which is also a song by Lasse Berghagen and is like Stockholm's own anthem song. The star most likely represents the northern star that always shines brighter in the night sky.

[@WyvernYT]

That's much better than my guess, which was that other vents had diamonds, clubs, and spades.

[@peterliljeholmen5703]

The star could possibly indicate a snow flake as we usually have pretty much snow winter time… Or else it could also actually indicate a star since we have pretty dark in Stockholm during winter so many stars (including the northern star) are visible.

[@hoej]

The chimes before an announcement on Danish Railways (DSB) stations are composed of D, E#, Bb notes - also known to Danes as D, Es, B. DSB, D Es B. Getit?

[@alexb__4133]

SBB CFF FFS does the same. The E# B B for the German part, C F F for the French and F F E# for the Italian

[@MckIdyl]

OK, now. THAT's cool.

[@stephenrgow]

Hi Tim, I believe we've spotted an additional hidden feature that you didn't notice: on the "plain" ventilation grills, the circles in fact represent the iconic IKEA meatballs.

[@AleksLehti]

Did you miss that the mostly blue trains all have their own name. The one at 4:06 is called Tobias.

[@zippanova]

It just blue itself!

[@arnoldhau1]

Many trains have names like that in many places... Not sure that is considered an Easter egg

[@AleksLehti]

@@arnoldhau1 I guess not, but it's just cute, and they have traditional Swedish names which might be fun if you're new to the country

[@nmat6183]

Not a local train, but there is a train regularly departing from Stockholm Central to Gothenburg, named Trainy Mc Trainface.

[@ErikTheTrainspotter]

All of them have names (in the stockholm metro.

[@BSODslayer]

I don't know if it fits the exact definition of an Easter egg, but the official jingle of the Danish State Railways, or DSB in Danish, used both in stations and on trains, is a three note melody consisting of a D, an E flat, and a B flat - and since Denmark uses the German style of musical notation and naming, E flat is referred to as "Es", and B flat just B, making the jingle D-Es-B. In other words, they turned their name into a melody. Literally. Edit: thanks to @ghalfsharp0 for correcting my shoddy music theory 😅

[@ghalfsharp0]

Sorry to be that person, but to translate it to English note names, it would be D, E-flat, B-flat

[@IIVQ]

I love that! The Montreal Metro has the MR-73, whose electric motor drivers emits 3 tones on departing. The notes of the propulsion are the same as the first three notes of Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man", one of the musical themes for Expo 67, but that is apparently just a coincidence. The notes were so remarkable, that in 2010 these notes were chosen as the door closing sound for the Montréal Metro and as brand sound for the entire STM. You can hear the departure at en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Montr%C3%A9al_Metro_MR-73_depart_%C3%A1_Berri-UQAM.webm

[@AL5520]

To add two others. The Montreal metro door closing chim is baded on ths sound the electric engine of the older MR-73 sets makes when accelerating out of the ststion. The New Mexico Rail Runner Express, a cummuter service connecting Albuquerque and Santa Fe, is named after the state bird - Greater Roadrunner so, obvioselly, the door closing chime is the famous "meep meep" the WB roadrunner cartoon character makes.

[@error-42]

Similarly, DB uses D-B and SBB CFF FFS uses Es-B-B, C-F-F and F-F-Es depending on location.

[@CX103]

⁠@@error-42SBB-CFF-FFS is my ringtone. So it’s an interesting experience to take a Swiss train.

[@CsendesMark]

In Hungary - Budapest: M4 metro has space invaders :D

[@SummerADDE_Elevators]

Just spent 5 hrs trying to film the elevators at T-centralen, went home with some success and the first thing I see, Tim at T-centralen in a new video! Hej hej and welcome to Stockholm, Tim!

[@frantasramota1359]

There are two metro trains in Prague that have a wave on the. That becase they were underwater during the flood of 2002.

[@herrmeistermann2426]

And some of the Metro Stations have a plaque with a horizontal line in it, showing the water level from the 2002 flooding. I remember finding it at Ceskomoravska Station at the escalotors.

[@beth12svist]

​@@herrmeistermann2426 Those plaques are all over Prague, not just the metro, for full info. 🙂 I think there's at least one in the Prague Zoo, for example.

[@bjarnemcdonald6333]

The seatcover in the white trains are the pavement at Sergels Torg designed danish Piet Hein. The seat cower i the blue trains are Stockholmo landmarks. And most interesting - On every street corner in the old town there is a red sign with a water drop and some numbers. They show the way the the nearest underground fire hydrant.

[@johandahlgren4919]

the underground fire hydrant sign is not unique to the old town

[@bjornerikroth]

The Sergels Torg pattern was designed by Jörgen Kjaergaard who worked in main architect David Helldén's team. Piet Hein designed the super-ellipsis outline of the fountain that's located right next to the sunken square.

[@rgibson7305]

I am so grateful that you never fail to highlight how things are/aren't/should be accessible. I started using a mobility scooter about six months ago, and the fact that you care enough to make sure disabled people are included is just so very heartwarming.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

The origin behind the Three Crowns is that it was first used as the shield of Magnus Ladulås (who reigned from 1275-1290) and later appearing on the coins of Magnus Eriksson (who reigned from 1319-1364). It was once stated that the Three Crowns originated with Albrekt of Mecklenburg (Eriksson's successor), but that was debunked as a frieze discovered in France in 1982 from 1336 featured the Three Crowns for Sweden (painted for an international congress led by the Pope in the 1330s). Eriksson used the symbols frequently to mark his three kingdoms, Sweden, Norway and Scania. At the middle of the 14th century, Denmark's severe financial problems caused most of the country to be pawned to German princes, and since Denmark's king was forced into exile in 1332, the Danish Archbishop in Lund requested that Magnus become king of the Scanian provinces of Denmark. There was actually a conflict over the Three Crowns emblem! In the 1550s, King Gustav Vasa of Sweden found that the Danish King Christian III had added the three crowns to his own coat of arms. Because the three crowns had been a Swedish symbol since the 14th century and were used by Danish monarchs only during the Kalmar Union, Gustav interpreted Christian III's use of the symbol as a sign of intent to conquer Sweden and resurrect the union. Christian countered that, stating the symbol now belonged to both kingdoms and he had as much a right as the Swedish king to use it. This conflict played a role at the outbreak of the Northern Seven Years' War in 1563. The conflict was settled with both countries being allowed to use the Three Crowns in their coats of arms (though for Denmark, it's in the greater/royal coat of arms than their state one).

[@mrmoshpotato]

"This is totally normal-looking behavior, right?" LOL!

[@philsharp758]

See the London Underground.

[@jwhite5008]

Not only did he film the grills, he also *filmed himself filming* the grills!

[@mrmoshpotato]

@@jwhite5008 Hahaha! Yes!

[@travelling_turtle]

Superb, and good to see you in my favourite European capital! Re other transport Easter eggs, perhaps the jingles played for each stop on the Lausanne metro (which is a fun system anyway, especially the bit that is a converted funicular) count? Each has some kind of relevance to the station or vicinity - e.g. seagulls at lakeside Ouchy, or horses at the former horsemarket, though I think some end up being pretty obscure... Makes the system all the more fun to ride on though.

[@TheTimTraveller]

Nice - sounds like I need to go to Lausanne! Some (but not all) of the Paris tram stops have their own jingles too

[@simonkampfer33]

Cool video as always, Tim ! On the way to Lausanne, stop in Strasbourg where all the tram stops have their own jingle. To this day i remember the ones i heard every day going to the lycée for three years more than 20 years ago. And they haven't changed them !

[@travelling_turtle]

@@simonkampfer33 I have clearly missed this tendency for themed jingles on French tram systems!

[@mariosphere]

Another Easter egg of the Lausanne metro: the voice that announces the stops is the night watchman, who has been calling the time from the cathedral tower for 600 years. Of course it's the current one.

[@thorstenwolters9025]

Tokio Metro as well. Every station has its one song to help people to reconize the Station.

[@richardemms3050]

The rear grille on the back of Wellington busses have the outline of a kiwi on them.

[@lachlanwoodsmith6064]

Only on Scania buses operated by Mana/Newlands Coach Services

[@lzh4950]

Meanwhile Singapore's public buses used to avoid having the digit '4' in their last 2 digits (except for the checksum character), probably due to superstition ('4' is a homonym for 'die' in Chinese)

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

1:07 A perfectly presented example of subtly sophisticated Scandiwegian style.

[@Nationalbussen221]

SL must have liked pac man.

[@m0llux]

On the Berlin U-Bahn, there are Brandenburg Gates in the window decals. And until recently, it was actually a depiction of the gate with one pillar having a wrong perspective.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

I can confidently say that if I told my grandsons that I was undertaking a trip to Stockholm to study their metro train carriages' ventilation grills to discover hidden Pakman figures, they'd have the guys in white coats knocking my door before sundown. 😂. Then again, it was a Swedish author who wrote the bestseller, "The 100 yr old man who climbed out the window and disappeared." 🇸🇪🥴

[@petertaylor4980]

If you try making that argument, they'll be doubly convinced to call the loony bin. "He also thinks he was involved in every major historical event of the past six decades."

[@KingRCT3]

2:59 Unexpected Basshunter cover OMG the memories.

[@Goblin_Wizard]

yesss ikr

[@gustenb]

What is the song title :)

[@Goblin_Wizard]

@@gustenb Basshunter - I Can Walk On Water

[@GoranNewsum]

Next video: The Cheeky Hidden Songs in a Tim Traveller Video!

[@57thorns]

That is just all of them.

[@rechnin6680]

Heard at least two Roxette tracks!

[@mikosoft]

He got the big 3 Swedish bands: 2:13 Europe - The final countdown, 2:20 ABBA - Dancing queen, 2:30 Roxette - Fading like a flower.

[@JanHouben]

​@@mikosoftand Abba's Thank you for the music immediately after that...

[@mikosoft]

@@JanHouben good catch, I couldn't recognize that over phone speaker

[@seidodge]

There has never been a more Tim Traveller video, than this Tim Traveller video. That’s not a complaint. Love it

[@LondonAndSouthEastTransport]

As a Swede from Stockholm, I didnt know any of these Easter Eggs on the C30 ventilation grills, great to know they exist now! Thanks Tim!

[@daandanx]

My favourite easter egg is the yellow 'service' button on our local Finnish buses. It's a small button next to the stop button above one's seat, containing a small image of a beverage. The secret here being what it actually does, because i've never had the guts to find out.

[@bobthegoat7090]

Maybe it sends a signal to the bus driver saying: "Hey I am super drunk so its going to take a long time to get out"

[@UltraYahooify]

There are similar buttons on long distance buses in Norway. They don't, from what I understand, serve any purpose when the bus is in normal traffic. If the bus is rented out/sold to a tour group it does serve as a way to attract the attention of the onboard tour guide without shouting loudly enough to be heard from the back of the bus.

[@Aviertje]

@@UltraYahooify But if the bus is rented out or used by a tour group, what is the point of the stop button?! I'm getting a serious 'these buttons are never relevant at the same time, and yet both communicate something to the front of the bus' feeling, so wouldn't it be more economical to have just one button, and have the driver switch whether that button means 'big buzzer with stop sign lights up' or 'front of bus gets a less obnoxious notification'...

[@johnladuke6475]

From what I've been told about Finland, you might actually be missing out on drinks service while riding local transit. Press the button, I bet that a friendly lady with a cart full of booze and plastic cups will come to see you. Seems like the sort of thing that should be advertised, maybe bring it up to the local government.

[@lzh4950]

My university's former shuttle buses (in Singapore) have these buttons too. Probably because their bodywork is made by a coachbuilder (SC Auto/Chivalrous) that otherwise builds the bodywork for coaches instead of shuttle/commuter buses, so they slapped on the same parts used for coaches onto these shuttle buses. The buttons don't do anything though. The buses also have reading lights which're centrally controlled by the driver together with the cabin gangway lighting though, instead of individually controlled but switch buttons beside them

[@kristenburnout1]

The Trondheim tramway uses wooden sticks as a rudimentary signalling system - On single line track sections when the normal signals are inoperable, the driver will lean out and grab a wooden stick with a number. There is only one stick per single line section, and only the tram with the stick is allowed to drive into the line section. Also, our public transit company is called AtB, which is pronounced A te B in the Trønder dialect, literally meaning «A to B» :)

[@IIVQ]

That system is called the "token" system and was one of the first reliable railway security systems, and still used by many simpler systems today, and also by complex systems in the event of a failure.

[@atraindriver]

@@IIVQ Being pedantic, it's a train staff rather than a token. A token has to be taken out of the token instrument which is interlocked with the signalling, whereas a staff isn't. I work a route which has still uses a train staff for the single line section. Thankfully it wasn't me but one of my colleagues who once forgot to stop and hand it back in at the end of the single line section. On the last train of the evening. Whoops.

[@IIVQ]

@@atraindriver Pedantry corner: The British "Train Staff" and "Electric token machine" systems are both "token" systems, one simpler than the other. The token can have many forms, sometimes a staff, but in the USA it was usually a hoop so it could be accepted without coming to a full stop. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_(railway_signalling)

[@beth12svist]

​​​@@IIVQ I was wondering! Here in Czechia it tends/tended to be a hoop, too, I think, so I was thinking "Staff? Token instrument? That seems oddly specific."

[@IIVQ]

@@beth12svist The British "Token Instrument" system is a variation where there are multiple tokens for one block, but electrically connected devices make sure no more than one can be taken out at the same time. This is useful if trains don't alternate directions but sometimes multiple trains follow each other, which in the simple one-token system would require that the token be brought (by a man on a horse?) back to the other side, which is extremely impractical. The tokens themselves in the Electric token system are usually either short staffs, a key-shape or a disk.

[@himagainstill]

1:19 This is particularly good, because while Inky, Pinky, and Blinky do various iterations on chasing Pac-Man, Clyde just does his own thing.

[@krisstopher8259]

3:05 i live 200m away from that station. a 200m walk. it's closer than that, i can literally see the station when i look down from my window. it's a 2km long hill with very long 10 story buildings on top of it (i live on the top floor, great view). it's called ERIKSBERG (the eric mountain, probably an old viking name) but the station is called hallunda cause the area below the station is called that. the station is built on a hill. i take very long escalators inside the mountain down to the bridge level where the station entrance is, then i take escalators UP to the platform or continue through a long indoor glass bridge to the hallunda mall. i've travelled with those new trains several times but i had no idea there were hidden easter eggs and i'm usually good at seeing small details lol

[@klutchcustoms2428]

Speaking of snails. I took the shell of my racing snail yesterday. I thought it would make him faster but if anything he's a bit sluggish now.

[@cady7944]

In Berlin/Brandenburg there is a train set that turns into a escape game(the train has the issue that it accidentally decouples a part of the train without informing the driver and due to safety systems the doors stay locked) and we also have a train set that eats your phones (foldable seats in ODEG trains that slides phones that are in the back pocket into a box under the seat)

[@psvisualdesign]

Hahaha, which line is the escape game train? would love to "accidentally" be stuck there on my way to work haha

[@cady7944]

​@@psvisualdesign it's the RB26 line by NEB (the train is a PESA Link)

[@psvisualdesign]

@@cady7944 thanks a lot =)

[@rusticcloud3325]

Decoupling issues would be a serious safety concern in my country, despite the fact that we still aren't very advanced when it comes to train/railway technology

[@Jehty21]

​@@rusticcloud3325it happened 1 time. Of course it's a safety concern, but accidents happen. I guess one could misunderstand OPs comment and think that's it's a regular occurrence. But it's not. It only happened one single time.

[@MrGreatplum]

Right, I’m telling the family we are off to Stockholm - what they won’t realise is that we will be looking at vents in metro trains 😜 A cracking set of music as well, Tim!

[@mebamme]

For a while during my daily commute, I sat in the same spot every day and marked the train I was on by writing a tiny number near the window. It was like a mark-and-recapture thing, I guess? I got up to around 17 before I stopped (and the numbers have probably long since faded away).

[@__cypher__]

Yeah ... That's called graffiti

[@Bleckman666]

Great video, thanks for finding the star, I haven't seen that one IRL. Funny that you mention the easter egg on the London Underground seats...but missed the one on the Stockholm metro ;) The seat pattern is supposed to look like the tiles on "Plattan" i.e. Sergels Torg square in the city centre. Randomly spread across the train are some figures like a skateboarder, a girl with a balloon (probably a nod to Banksy) and a couple of others which I leave for everyone to find for themselves! :)

[@jacobbaer785]

More transport easter eggs: Not sure if it counts, as this is relatively well known, but the Mexico City Metro has individual logos for every station. It was originally intended to help people who didnt know how to read to use the system.

[@petertaylor4980]

Some lines of the London Underground have different interior decoration in each station. ISTR the Brussels underground doing likewise.

[@andi_1425]

Hunting easter eggs in transport vehicles - While I sit in the office all day, this man lives my dream (that I didn't even know I had :D )

[@barryr7216]

The relatively newly opened light rail connection in Aarhus, Denmark, has all it’s stops announced by legendary Tour de France commentator, writer and filmmaker Jørgen Leth. The light rail is colloquially called ‘Jørgen Lethbane’

[@Wayclarke]

I'm 2 seconds in and as a Swede I just have to clarify: HEJ hej is a Swedish greeting. Hey HEY is Krusty the Klown. As we are conflict averse we will say we really appreciate the attempt, but we are also very intimidated.

[@TheTimTraveller]

Haha oops - thank you for the helpful feedback. At least I know for next time!

[@Wayclarke]

@@TheTimTraveller Of course it's all in good fun. ;)

[@fisk0]

The Thorildsplan station on the Green Line also has a video game theme. Also, if I remember correctly a few of the older C20 trains (the blue ones you mentioned) also have these easter eggs, but only the ones built after a certain year, with the ones built in the 90s being far more plainly decorated. Those have other little easter eggs though - each C20 train has been given a common Swedish name, which is printed along with the serial number by the driver cabin.

[@Ermude10]

I can't believe you missed the seats! Thanks for taking the time to go through all the vents!

[@danielben-barak4286]

Here are some that I know about from Melbourne Australia: -C2 class trams have a bumblebee painted near the front. This is a reference to the fact that they were originally Alstom Citadis trams, but were brought in when there was oversupply in France and a shortage in Melbourne. When they arrived, they were painted yellow as opposed to the PTV's green and white, and so were nicknamed Bumblebees. -Some V-Line trains are named after famous Australian people or places. -A few metro trains have cool artwork that is reminiscent of traditional Aboriginal art. -Tram Route 35 The City Circle runs only W-Class trams, the really old trams that were used mostly in the 20th century, as a tourist attraction that is also a functional public transport service. -There are a few statues of trams and trains around the city, such as one of a tram embedded vertically into the ground near Southern Cross Station, or a restaurant with three actual Hitachi trains on it in Collingwood.

[@ichmagschokolade537]

The mobile app from sbb (swiss national train operator) has a secret jump and run game built in as an easter egg (the developing company didn't tell this sbb and if I remember correctly they got the information, that theres a game in their app from the media)

[@mcfly824]

Around Birmingham, occasionally, the dot matrix signs display a blank space where the standard "Delayed" text usually is.

[@atraindriver]

Sorry, that's just wishful thinking!

[@LexyDaShmexxy]

you should check out some of the seats, they have some easter eggs too, it's only on the white trains that you found the little easter eggs on the grills

[@PizzaDeNirofromCaseohs]

In Skåne, southern Sweden, especially on a pågatåg there is a very small chance of the screens functioning properly

[@princeofgonville]

I love the Stockholm Metro. Every station is wonderfully different and artistic in different ways. The thing I remember the most was the "no entry" sign at the bottom of an escalator with the text "Ej Upp" next to it. Which seems really funny in a Yorkshire accent.

[@TheJamesM]

Yeah I always enjoy that when I'm over there - and the proper Swedish pronunciation is actually not a million miles from that! (As everyone can probably infer, the literal translation is "not up".) Another one that used to amuse me as a kid was from the lovely old apartment building my grandmother used to live in. It had an old-fashioned cage lift in the centre of the stairwell. At each door there was a button to call the lift _here_ ("hit"), and below that one to send it _down_ to ground floor ("ned"): HIT NED What did poor Ned do to deserve that‽ (Of course, in this case the actual Swedish pronunciation would be very different - something closer to "heat neared" with a non-rhotic accent.)

[@LongPeter]

Probably an accessibility feature, but I noticed major railway stations in Japan appear to play birdsong at the platform exists. “This way to the outside where you can hear birds.” In the Kyoto subway, the exit bird was an owl hoot. I do love the extent to which Japan feels like a video game world.

[@Chickenbreadlp]

I love how a lot of metro stations in Japan have their own unique jingles that play *exactly* the last 7 seconds the train is waiting in the station before it closes the doors. Didn't know about the birdsongs tho :O

[@rainers.2080]

Taking a ride on the Stockholm metro sounds like a blast.

[@fricatus]

The music is just awesome. Tells us how much Sweden has given to the world! ❤

[@moritzl7065]

I prefer finding the easter eggs of the music you put into each video. In this case, starting at 2:13 with the list: 0 - Europe - The Final Countdown 1 - ABBA - Dancing Queen 2 - Roxanne - Fading Like a Flower 3 - ABBA - Thank you for the Music 4 - C418 - Minecraft (soundtrack) 5/6/7 - idk :( someone plz fill me in In terms of public transport easter eggs, I can only think of one from where I live on the spot (Switzerland): The official jingle varies slightly depending on which language zone you're in, and the jingle always features three notes: EBB (German-speaking area), CFF (French-speaking area) and FFE (Italian-speaking area). Substitute the "E" for the "S" and you get the abbreviation for "Swiss Federal Railways" in each language: SBB CFF FFS. (much easier to explain if one has heard each jingle lol)

[@incalescent9378]

Thank you for this! I never knew there was even anything to know about jingles. And it's apparently not an E, but an E-flat, also named 'Es'. So it's es-bee-bee -> SBB.

[@FindecanorNotGmail]

7 - Roxette - It Must Have Been Love I also did not recognise the 4,5,6. Never played Minecraft

[@ruawhitepaw]

5 - Basshunter - Walk On Water

[@0LoneTech]

Did you not want to count the Pac-Man jingle?

[@leDespicable]

There also was Another Town, Another Train by Abba

[@sprigflower]

As always, the music in Tims videos are their own easter eggs. Here is the music I could identify. 0:30 - Another Town, Another Train (ABBA) 1:12 - Game music from Pac Man 2:13 - The final countdown (Europe) 2:20 - Dancing Queen (ABBA) 2:30 - Fading like a flower (Roxette) 2:45 - Thank you for the music (ABBA) 2:54 - ? 3:00 - ? 3:25 - It must have been love (Roxette) 3:42 - Another Town, Another Train (ABBA)

[@felixmayer2723]

2:54 Minecraft Sweden (C418) 3:00 I can walk on water (Basshunter)

[@qpreem]

So I live in Sweden and go on the subway pretty often but I have never had any idea of these cool Easter eggs, I need so start looking more!

[@bertbergers9171]

Thank you very much for sharing! I will view another one of your quirky insights videos real soon for another laugh and learn moment!

[@RoadDestination]

Now you spoiled all the fun, easter isn't even started and all the easter eggs are already exposed.🤣

[@Scabiosastellata]

The whole blue line in stockholm is an art gallery!! Really hope you’ll make a video on that!

[@adnalm]

Not just the blue line; there is art (to varying tastes) at EVERY station on the T-bana!

[@ludwig2345]

​@@adnalmthe green line is pretty boring though. The red and blue (and all upcoming stations and lines) are great.

[@einar8019]

@@ludwig2345 but the further away from the city center you get the more boring the stations get

[@reneesimpson7094]

I NEED more Tim time. Stop enjoying your life and put out more videos! You’re the best!!!❤

[@FrauWNiemand]

What a cute idea. And big hug for all the lovely music easter eggs hidden in this video again.

[@RamTheGre721]

As a Stockholmer, i must say these new trains are cool, but the old trains they replaced were something else. It was always an experience to ride with them...

[@ludwig2345]

Yes, absolutely. I always paused my audiobook when one of the old trains arrived at a platform. I just had to listen to them... ...because you can't hear anything because of those goddamn loud trains! I don't miss them one bit, but I am probably too young to appreciate bad trains.

[@_loss_]

Not to mention the smell of them. I might be in the minority saying it's a nice odor.

[@RamTheGre721]

@@_loss_ Oh yeah, their smell is wonderful, especially compared to the new C30, that sometimes smells like piss and rubber combined...

[@Gebieter]

I love the idea of these easter-eggs beeing somewhere in the required specifications of the official paper-works to order the trains. Like if the manufacturer won the public tender because of it's swag. 😂

[@adrianrutterford762]

Wonderful and quirky. Good design does not have to be dull. Thanks

[@nonamee804]

I have the feeling the star is supposed to be the top of the Christmas tree. That's how I can see it. 🎄

[@HCToll-sb8ht]

Also in the Stockholm (new) ssubway, here are small people wowen into he fabric of the seat textile cover, but only in a few places

[@marcelwiszowaty1751]

I spotted one of them in the video! 🙂

[@FindecanorNotGmail]

BTW, the fabric pattern is depicting the tile pattern at _Sergels_ _Torg_ square, right outside the hub station at the centre of the subway network where all lines interconnect.

[@joestrahl6980]

​@@FindecanorNotGmailexcellent observation !!

[@andershansson2245]

The band Europe are from Upplands Väsby, north of Stockholm, but you'll have to take the commuter there.

[@_loss_]

Home 😊

[@ProfSimonHolland]

my Renault Zoe has the thumbprint of the cars designer...moulded into the rear door push button. ...cool bananas Tim. 🎉

[@silmarian]

So many cool things I’ll only be able to see via video/photo. Thanks, Tim!

[@TomuDesuKa]

On metro trains here in Melbourne, the very abstract patterns on the upholstery can be rearranged into the letters CONNEX, which was the name of one of the private companies that operated melbourne trains in the early 2000's. A different company has operated all the trains for like 15 years now, but they've never changed the leftover subliminal connex messaging.

[@W0mpa]

Welcome to Sweden, Tim!

[@louisfkoorts5590]

Thank you Tim. Interesting and or entertaining, always.

[@kaksikymmenta3]

There are poems on the edges of the windows in the Tampere trams. And of course there are (or used to be) 6 fingered hands on Finnish trains. I have also seen Transformers logo on rails of Helsinki trams.

[@michaelocyoung]

Fun fact - the jingle for the Stockholm Metro is also used on the HS1 Javelin trains and if you're as geeky as I am you can find the voice file with all the stations of the Metro here on KZbin

[@markwaypoint]

In Hamburg Germany we have subway trains (Hochbahn) which have a distinctive handrail design, it looks like a capital H. There are two per wagon, crating the HH that is known from the abbreviation on the licensplates of cars registered in Hamburg.

[@TravelSignal]

But do they stand for Hansestadt Hamburg, or Hamburger Hochbahn? 🤔

[@atraindriver]

@@TravelSignal Depends whether you're inside the city boundary or not. ;)

[@rusticcloud3325]

If the subway is called Hochbahn, are the dangling trains called Unterbahn?

[@Stephen_Lafferty]

I always enjoy the situationally-appropriate piano musical beds that Tim records for his voiceover - it's that extra touch that really makes the production of each video pop!

[@duddle21]

This made my day. Thank you Tim

[@Bob-nc5hz]

These are pretty ridiculously cutesy.

[@rocketboysmc]

Things I didn't realise I wanted to know.

[@SailorYuki]

Swedes do like their easter eggs. Not a train related thing but the movie theather at Hötorget has lots of easter eggs from movies in the walls. Tiny ones cleverly hidden within the mosaic. Of these train related ones, the water and star are the only ones I haven't seen in person. They made the daily commute much more interesting.

[@stephengraham1153]

Taking train spotting to a whole new level of nerdiness!

[@petrus_red]

London has buses run by ratp with a logo of the seine river, which is where London's borders would be if not for the green belt

[@varana]

The Seine? Like the one in Paris?

[@petrus_red]

@@varana yes, ratp is the Paris metro company which also runs some bus routes in London. And their logo is the map of Paris with the river seine shown as a face

[@jg-7780]

Less of an Easter egg, and not very hidden, but some of the seats show silhouettes of people l, as seen to the right around 4:18

[@markc3173]

Another great video. Very entertaining. Thank you.

[@aleksandarbrzic8351]

Well and truly worth of the Tim Traveller fame this video!

[@jancelabobo8238]

clicked so fast. Thank you for being a reason for me to procrastinate Tim XD

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

Very little of IKEA's wood is from Sweden. I wish you would include a list of the songs you use as motifs in your videos btw. Basshunter reminded me I want it.

[@TheTimTraveller]

Some excellent pedantry here, and I'm sure you are correct :) I imagine they STARTED with Swedish trees though...

[@andershansson2245]

@@TheTimTraveller technically, Ikea started with money borrowed from the fascist Per Engdahl.

[@0LoneTech]

The oaks in particular were used to build swedish war ships, and restricted property of the king, if I recall correctly. A quick lookup suggests that lasted until 1830. I believe there's also an amusing anecdote to be found about it. Oaks are so strong because they grow slowly, and growing them for ships could take a hundred years or more - and indeed one such order was completed a few decades after the navy stopped building wooden ships.

[@msand2396]

Very nice to see you being in Stockholm. Hopefully there will be more videos from my home town

[@SniffLul]

The water droplet might be a reference to how one of Swedens mostly used source of energy is hydropower