Stockholm's scary subway - Silverpilen & Kymlinge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- In tonight's ghost story, we explore Stockholm's infamous subway of the undead
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Nice video about an urban legend that has always tickled my mind and (perhaps somewhat weirdly) instilled just a little bit of national pride. Just one correction: the C5 setwas not bought second hand, it was actually a prototype bought new from Hägglund & Söner in order to trial a new construction method.
The trainset also had a minor role in the infamous 90s movie "Sökarna" (The Seekers) where it can be seen in shots from Metro-Stations. The C5 was supposedly chosen because the directors of the film wanted to portray a fictitious city in an alternative Sweden and not specifically Stockholm.
lol we have the same name ha ha ha
Funny, I was just thinking “Well it’s October now, when’s train of thought going to upload” a few seconds later I looked at my notifications and there it was. Spooky…
“Stockholm, Sweden, home to many things, including the worlds narrowest street […]”
**proceeds to show a picture of the narrowest street in Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany**
I’ve always had a special interest in the Stockholm Metro, and these urban legends are always fun to listen to. Well done!
Silverpilen: **Silver unpainted Apperance makes the train look spooky**
New York City Subway with their stainless steel fleet since 1988: *Pathetic*
Some tube trains in London were also unpainted for decades.
In the New York City Subway it is the passengers that freak you out.
@@jonistan9268 Chicago El ran mostly unpainted trains since the 80s
@@dsludge8217 yup, those people need to be place in rehab
@@jonistan9268 yup
Im proud, you pronounced Kymlinge correctly! Im from the great lands of ikea and im happy that you made this video, something swedish! (If i havent missed an episode)
Eh, we who live just around the corner does not pronounce Kymlinge as Chymlinge, but with a hard K as in the word kick.
För de som pratar svenska så härrör namnet Kymlinge (med hårt k) enligt bl.a. boken ”Stockholms gatunamn” från Kummelby (vilket i sin tur var ett namn som hade med [grav]kummel att göra. Dvs. K framför vokal innebär inte alltid ett tje-ljud i ortsnamn etc.
Thors film also contain several other mistakes. The C5-Type was not second hand, but a test train. Built by Hägglund in Örnsköldsvik 1963-1965. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpilen
Furthermore, the picture of the interior is from an entirely different train. Probably not even a Swedish one. Also, the picture of the narrow street (alleyway) seam to be of something in Germany.
These silver trains connect certain Backrooms locations to other Backrooms. Humans should avoid them, as they are often inhabited by Backrooms residents.
Some factual errors:
a) they were brand new, as they were designed to test different features for future subway cars
b) that's a Soviet subway car interior, the silver arrow had bay seats
c) the Saltsjöbanan train is a much later metro model converted to railroad width (thus the 'skirts'), it has never been green, always light blue with white stripes
Some more facts:
It had the same total and inside width as the previous modes, but the doors were hung outside instead of sliding into pockets in the wall. To do his, the walls were thinner. This might be the reason to why they made a somewhat eerie whining sound, which might have contributed to the ghost story, and you could hear from afar which train was coming.
The interior details were also somewhat different to both older and newer trains. I can remember that the covers above the door weren't rounded, the panels above the windows were vertical instead of tilted and the end opposite to the cab was flat without windows and the window holes on the outside were covered with grates.
The cars were built lighter than other trains and had a very good suspension, which however led to the car body jumping up and down on uneven track.
I did not expect the first video of October to be about my home city! ^-^
Also another fun fact, the stockholm metro contains a ton of stations with custom sculptures and art. Making it the worlds longest art gallery.*
(*Depending on what you define as an art gallery.)
Also thanks for acknowledging Globen Arena as still holding the record. As a lot of people seem to think the giant spherical shell in las vegas counts as a building. :V
1:00 That's actually a soviet Type A train, manufactured from 1934 to 1937, which was in operation in the Moscow Metro
@@COPPAS70 He’s referring to the train interior at 1:00. C5 trains had transverse seating, not longitudinal.
I remember seeing this piece of equipment on images and thought “hey this looks cool”
sometimes people just are crazy good at making up scary stories. i really loved to hear these.
A great start to October.
I've heard of many ghost/spooky stories surrounding the railways, admittedly most sound like pure hocum but are interesting none the less.
I'd love to hear you talk about the strategic steam reserve at some point.
(Unless you have already done so and I have missed a video)
Brilliant channel.
The trains were built for Stockholm. So they were not secondhand.
I love your content TOT. I am a American and I like listening to ghost train stories from across the globe. This train I saw in a dream once.
I don't think that the Silverpilen trainset was secondhand. It's just a prototype for the C4(?) cars I think.
They came during the C4 delivery period which ran from 1960 to 1967.
Ah the story of 'Silverpilen' honestly I have not heard much about it, i'm guessing it's not that big of a subject to talk about amongst us swedish train fans. And also ursäkt godtagen for those feluttal.
1:30 "all bearing expressionless, vacant looks."
Meh, that sounds like normal commuters to me.
The sign for the “world‘s narrowest street” is German and quite literally says the name of the city it’s in on it: Reutlingen, not Stockholm.
The 8 cars of type C5 were not second-hand, they were new to Stockholm. Also, the line to Kymlinge opened in 1977, not 1975.
Delightfully SPOOPY!
Ever hear of the Ghost Train from the “Hey Arnold!” Cartoon?
I have!
This is a good start for the spooky time
Well. . . it's October now, we can keep track of what day it is by how many videos are posted. I loved watching it! I can't wait for the rest!
Great video, and excellent choice of background music!
Great video as always!
Interesting that they acquired flared sides, just like the 1938 London underground surface stock!
That's a metro train adapted for suburban running on the Saltsjöbanan rail line
So that's where they got the idea, take some old clapped-out Leyland buses, put some rail bogies on them and call them Pacers.
Decades later they were still rattling along.
I wish my wife hadn’t left me but this is a good substitute
The Sliver Paint scheme looks pretty cool.
The Neverending Trip on the Silver Arrow + Haunted Shumlinger = DEEP LORE
I half expect the Ghost Train theme from _Thomas The Tank Engine_ to play.
That would suit me just fine!
Always interesting hearing about railway stories not from the big English speaking countries, like Sweden in this video
I wonder if he's gonna do a video about Rome's creepy railway.
I think there are 3 types of ghosts: memories that aren't contained by a person, dead people who decided they weren't done yet, and artificial ghosts: ghosts created not through death or remembrance, but through stories like these. Sometimes, ghosts are hard to tell apart, and come with different influences on the world.
Well done
I find it interesting that these cars have the same type of couplers that were common on New York City Subway cars, although they were also used on some interurban cars in California.
Nice video!
Awwww yeah spooktober is off to a good start
thankfully i wasnt born at that time and yes i live in stockholm/sweden still today so its quite fascinating about a old train i never knew about in the first place
As a Swede myself, I never never knew Stockholm had a ghost subway.
The locals literally made up entire urban legends because some subway cars weren’t painted green and were slightly weird inside. Respect to them 👍
I see "ghost trains" all the time because the metro trains in near where I'm staying (the SkyTrain in BC, Canada) the trains are fully automated. And when they're not in service and are heading back to the yard, not surprisingly there's no passengers on board. But the automatic voice saying "The next train is not in service, please stand clear from the platform" ruins any superstition.
Glad they recognized their importance in myth and legend and saved two of them.
Wonderful Stuff
great story 🚇😮
2:00 um... some 'interesting' graffiti there XD
This Is Amazing I Like Spooky Things
oooooo Halloween special!
it would be funny if a train operator decided to stop the train at the abandoned station and make everyone freak out
Spooktober
Sølvpilen, Kiowaenes høvding
modernized ghost train
Where do you even buy secondhand subway cars? And who was selling them?
North Korea bought some from Berlin, but it’s a moot point as the Stockholm ones weren’t second hand.
0:40 New York and Chicago EL riders- *"First time?"* 😂😂
Normal ones are green while these are grey?
Hmm, those are my colours. :P
The carriages for the blue line are painted blue.
The narrowest street in the world sign there however states the German city Name of Reutlingen....
Nice
That's more funny than scary
0:03 that picture is in Reutlingen, Germany XD Even the text on the sign is German
0:03 the text is German, so its not in Stockholm? and btw I'm from Stockholm
actually I might be wrong now that I realize. well idk
We found the entrance to the backrooms.
Wish for naught, but for the literary heights of bored 13yo trying to scare their siblings or worse, gullible classmates, to fear the insatiable blood chilling thirst of the horror known as _the subway_ ! Aka Satan's alternative bus!
_Because a beurocrat didn't bother paying for paint_
I live in sweden and never heard about the stories but it's fun to hear them know. Anyways all of stockholms trains are ugly in my opinion
The world's narrowest street is in Germany amd that's even what you showed a photo of
😮
0:07 why don't you mention IKEA 😢
It’s Spooky Month
Don't ever show a Swede what a NYC Subway looks like
Last time I came this early....
Well let's just say I celebrate father's day now 👶🔪 💣
the narrowest street is in germany buddy
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Im scared
A very quick search could have told you how these words are pronounced. Minor effort required only :P
So a classic case of resources being put where they never bore fruit. Kinda makes sense honestly, along with the spread of the stories. Putting those carriages to public use un-finished and paintless was a poor idea all-around.
Sweds literally got scared of unpainted trains
It's always the second hand things that you buy that turned out to be haunted
As a Swede I have to say your pronunciation isn't that bad actually
I see new content for thomas the tank engine
woohoo ghosts
weeeaah
im actually going to stockholm on wednesday, love this series keep it up chap.🚂🚃