It actually plays a Bb and not a B. This is because in Denmark, mainly among classical musicians, we use the same stupid note system as the Germans, where B is called H and Bb is just called B. We still write Bb, mind you. The Jingle would sound pretty shite if it wasn't like that...
@@Silikone The note B (in the English system) is H in Danish, but B flat is actually called B in the Danish system, and it's B flat being played. It's not really logical at all, but it's the same system as in Germany, as @netiosys4677 noted.
An American riding a train in Denmark with a Canadian door chime...Mr. Worldwide. The regional double-decker coach you rode was made by Bombardier (now of course Alstom), and that chime's the standard for these coaches. However the original ancestor of the Bombardier Double-deck Coach can be traced back to the LBE double-deck coaches built by WUMAG at Görlitz in Germany in the 1930s. They were push-pull trains with a cab car that could control the steam locomotive at the other end of the train. After World War II, these coaches were developed further by VEB Waggonbau Görlitz (formerly WUMAG) into double-deck trains. Starting in 1974, single coaches were built again that were the direct ancestors of today's double-deck coaches. These trainsets were used by Deutsche Reichsbahn (the GDR/DDR's railway) as well as several other railways of the Eastern Bloc. After 1990, VEB Waggonbau became part of Deutsche Waggonbau AG which was acquired by Bombardier in 1998. Frederick VII at 14:41 ruled Denmark from 1848 to 1863. He was the last Danish monarch of the older Royal branch of the House of Oldenburg and the last king of Denmark to rule as an absolute monarch. Since 1863, the House of Glücksburg (collateral branch of the House of Oldenburg) has ruled the kingdom. A cool thing about Denmark is their flag holds the world record of being the oldest continuously used national flag, as it was officially recognized as the national flag in 1625. A banner with a white-on-red cross is attested as having been used by the kings of Denmark since the 14th century. An origin legend with considerable impact on Danish national historiography connects the introduction of the flag to the Battle of Lindanise of 1219.
A standard chime sound on transit. . . I do not know music notes, but I think I saw that the chime is two notes of "Swing Low ... sweet chariot." I think old transit vehicles used a real bell to signal 'doors closing now'.
@@295g295The three note chime before announcements are on all DSB trains and was composed specifically for DSB and the notes are D, Es, B, when the israeli railways bought some IC3 trains they kept the tune. But noone else uses them.
Speaking of the cool Danish plant you showed at 12:35, Copenhagen turned a plant into a ski slope! Yes, a place where one can ski in Denmark! It's called CopenHill and it's at the top of a clean energy plant, a waste-to-energy plant! Copenhill aims to burn up to 400,000 tonnes of waste per year, producing enough electricity to power 60,000 homes and heat 160,000 homes. To put it simply, 3 kg of household waste can provide up to five hours of domestic heating! Turning a plant into a thing for winter sports sounds weird, but Beijing did the same thing by putting a big air venue next to cooling towers for the 2022 Winter Olympics. The Shougang plant was a steel plant. The plant was shut down in 2003 before the 2008 Olympics as it was the cause of a lot of Beijing's pollution. So by the time the city hosted the Olympics again, the plant entered an era of urban regeneration as it's turned into a low-carbon museum and leisure complex! More on Tivoli Gardens: The amusement park was first called Tivoli & Vauxhall, with Tivoli coming from the Jardin de Tivoli in Paris (which in its turn was named after Tivoli in Italy), and Vauxhall referring to Vauxhall Gardens in London. Tivoli Gardens's founder Georg Carstensen obtained a five-year charter to create the park from King Christian VIII by telling the king that "when the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics". The park opened in 1843, making it as Simon said, one of the oldest operating parks in the world! Georg Carstensen said in 1844 that "Tivoli will never, so to speak, be finished", which inspired Walt Disney when Disneyland opened in the 1950s and said "Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world".
It's actually not Copenhill but Roskilde Forbrænding in the video, which is similarly sized (super cool looking!) waste incineration plant, but without any ski slopes. There is actually another ski slope near Roskilde in Hedeland with a slope length of just 280 m -We really desperately want ski slopes in this country haha
@@AverytheCubanAmerican Ah okay! I get that now. I just understood it at first as something like "Speaking of the cool plant, isn't it amazing they turned a plant into a ski slope" haha but now the actual meaning is blatantly obvious haha
I have been told that the MTA Harlem Line runs a "Bike Train" on weekends during the Summer that gets pretty full of bikes. The train runs to Wassaic (Pronounced like Passaic with a Wah sound). There is a bike trail that starts at the Wassaic station and it is very popular. I don't know how packed the bike train gets, but I can say from experience that the bike trail is pretty nice. I can't believe you didn't show The Little Mermaid.
Metro-North tends to get REALLY busy on its nature-oriented weekend trains! I did SEE The Little Mermaid, for what it's worth, but I don't think it would've been relevant here! ;)
The Harlem line also has the Appalachian Trail call stop on it. The only call stop on MTA rail that I know of, and the only train station directly on the Appalachian Trail.
You should try riding trains in Switzerland. The country is the embodiment of the good parts of Europe and the us (except it takes high prices from the US). There is really excellent transit.
That's what's possible when you don't have fare gates! The best interchange on the S-train network is, however, the timed cross-platform interchange between the A and F lines at Hellerup. I use it almost daily.
No It’s not. They don’t have level boarding, the ticket prices of much too high, the have a low top speed, which they often can’t even use, cause of the extremely limited capacity through the city centre, where an expresstunnel needs to be built, to add more than double the capacity through the city centre, and serve the Copenhagen main hospital with a rapid transit connection from all the S train lines. Also, RMTransit, please do some more videos on Copenhagen, like how to get rid of all the cars by upgrading bus lines to trams, over a dozen lines have been proposed, stretching from within Copenhagen to about halfway to the end of the S train lines. And do a video on Denmark’s rail system as well, as some of the insane bottlenecks.
@@ncard00 That's an extremely pessimistic view. No, not all S-train stations have level boarding, but most are close to level, and ramps can be deployed if necessary. Yes, there's a bottleneck in the central parts, but even with the current tunnel, service is REALLY GOOD compared to most other cities. Every 10 minutes on every "finger" is a great level of service for a city of only 1.5 million. An express tunnel would make it even better, and I really hope it gets built, but the current system is already great. 30 trains per hour is not "extremely limited". The suggested BRT lines (2 of them have already been approved, 200S and 400S) are also great projects, but even without them, Copenhagen already has better radial bus service than most other cities of a similar size.
Yeah. They used a tone like this for station announcements across the country back in the day. It was changed for a while but now they've gotten an updated version of the three notes that they're using more and more in everything from onboard announcements to advertisements as a jingle.
In case you're confused by Danish pronunciation, half of what you think are consonants are actually vowels and the other half you have to sound like you're being strangled when you say them.
Its funny to see someone praising anything to do with DSB, considering literally everybody I know are on their case for being overpriced and perpetually late
Great that you could travel this network with a local. Hearing the correct pronunciation of all the station names was satisfying. I'm a native English speaker who lived in Denmark for one year in 1998. I can attest that Danish pronunciation is extremely difficult to get right.
I've been commuting in Copenhagen since i was 10 y/o so watching someone marvel at the things that are apart of my everyday life is really novel. I used to take the local train to Faxe Ladeplads for my boarding school and the C-line brings me from where i live, Ballerup, to where my parents live, Klampenborg.
i know right , as someone who lived in høje taastrup i would take the regional train most of the time but when that was delayed, i’d do the s-tog. also 👋
I've been wanting to visit Copenhagen for a while now, been looking up guides by the locals etc. and somehow RU-vid never told me you had released this video. Anyway, something they teach us in Finland, where learning Swedish in school is mandatory: To speak Danish, just put a hot potato in your mouth and start speaking Swedish.
That train jingle was weirdly nostalgic for me, since Israel Railways used to run a fair bit of Danish rolling stock (though they stopped running the last ones last year), and apparently didn't bother changing the jingle.
Always love it when a train station actually has a model train layout! And the fact Copenhagen Central has 7-Elevens right on their platforms is such chef's kiss. Truly Texas's greatest export! 7-Eleven was founded in Dallas in 1927 as a storefront for an icehouse! The company's first outlets were called "Tote'm Stores" between 1928 and 1946 because customers toted away their purchases, and these stores featured totem poles. The name was changed to 7-Eleven in 1946 to reflect their new operating hours of 7 am to 11 pm, seven days a week. The n in their logo is lowercased because the first wife of John P. Thompson Sr., the company's president during the 1960s, thought the all-capitals version seemed a little aggressive and wanted it to be more graceful. Ah yes, a cobweb on a train...even spiders approve the S-tog! Really cool that the LED displays actually show the progress of the train instead of just saying what the next station is! There should definitely be frequent service to farmland as shown here, because that enables the farmers to take the train to sell their produce! The Greenport Branch on the LIRR goes through farmland, North Fork's wine country and if they had electrified and frequent service, that would make a difference in attracting people to those wineries and farms! And yeah, absolutely it is nice when trains or buses have USB ports or power outlets to charge! Sure you may not use them all the time, but for the times you do need to charge, it's nice to have a charger while transiting! On the LIRR M7s for example, the M7 only has them on the seats nearest to the doors, but the LIRR M9s that entered service in 2019 has power outlets at EVERY row of seats!
Also fun fact. The world's busiest 7eleven is at Copenhagen Central station, its in the concourse just in front of the escalators down to platforms 7-8 and 9-10.
Before 7-eleven, most station kiosks, and also grill bars/restaurants belonged to a chain owned by DSB, starting in 1938. DSB Kiosk & Restaurant went downhill in the 90es for dome reason, and was sold off in 2001. Later 7-eleven took over, and used this to establish a strong base which they then used to drive many independent kiosks out business in bigger cities. I despise that chain, but often they are the only option.
And the Japanese loves 7Eleven so much, that the once Japanese subsidiary bought the parent company when they were in financial trouble, and saved the franchise worldwide.
I’ve been to several of these stations since my first visit to Denmark in 1985. Yeah I’m getting old. It inspired me to actually take some Danish language courses and I can still carry on simple conversations. Ko-pen-hah-gen is the German pronunciation. Ko-pen-hay-gen is the English pronunciation. The Danish pronunciation requires a few beers first.
Usually when foreigners try to say something with “ø” they prolong it, so it sounds like “øeeeøeøe” If you try to Pronounce it as short as possible, it tends to be more right :)
I love Cph Central Station. It’s kinda dark and cozy, love the oxblood paint on the iron structure inside and the yellow tinted lights. As a Londoner I do find their subway really silly cuz of how small it is, it feels like a toy compared to the tube.
@@noeonoohno4219 Yeah but driverless,, running on emission free, offshore windmill power and departs every 3 minutes. You can walk out from customs in Copenhagen airport and be in city centre, for the price of two apples, in the time it takes to eat two apples. The frequency means that you do not need to learn any timetables. Just go to the Metro and a train will arrive. It´s a great deal,
Yeah but London is 15 million people, that's almost 8 x bigger than Copenhagen. And you started building the metro back in medieval times during the crusades I believe, Denmark basically started last year.
I don't wanna hear people complain about US Rolling Stock anymore (from a comparative perspective to European rolling stock), I don't know of any metro, light rail, or regional rail stock that looks this dilapidated. Sheesh.
Then you gotta check some Italian stock. The Circumvesuviana in Naples for example is horribly covered in Graffiti. Also have a look at Greece. Intercity coaches there are basically all tagged to hell and beyond.
@@bahnspotterEU Berlin U bahn and S bahn are in horrible shape these days as well. It was more comparing european rolling stock generally to American rolling stock. Yeah, the American stuff is utilitarian, but it's reliable, presentable and generally clean aside from maybe the occasional spilled coffee.
They do still feel more modern than American trains. But the dilapidated state are a result of political incompetence. DSB has a chronic rolling stock shortage. The S-train system has 135 sets in total but on a weekday only 2 will be spares, all 133 others will have to run in service. That means there's little to no time to do cleaning and maintenance unless you wanna cause cancelations across the network. It is a very common Danish specific problem to only order exactly whats needed, and never enough to have spares. Danish austerity measures, trying to do things as cheaply as possible so that politicians, especially on the right wing can claim they "Aren't wasting taxpayer money" and "Giving people the same for less" so they can lower taxes.
3:09 the funny thing about the DSB jingle is that the keys are actually D, Eb (pronounced S) and Bb (in Danish pronounced B). So it's DSB with music keys.
Unfortunately there is only 2 sets spare every day for the entire network after 10 min all day service was introduced. This means there can't be many trains taken out of service for cleaning before it has effects on cancellations and short forming. We really needed to order more trains 10 years ago.
@@MilesinTransit Yup. 2 sets out of a fleet of 135 trainsets. Its the classic Danish way whether we like it or not. Only order exactly enough to fufill your needs, because if you order more, then the media will pick up on it with articles like "New trains sit empty, tax dollars wasted" and cause a media scandal because people dont realise what it actually takes to run a train line.
Tivoli was as an inspiration to Walt Disney for a clean park instead of a gritty carnival "carnie" park. He'd toss small pieces of paper on the ground and see how long it took for someone to come along and sweep it up. It has one of the oldest roller coasters in the world which has a brakeman on the train to control the speed in real-time. Also, Denmark has a 100% tax on private car ownership. So yes, you basically pay twice the price of a car to own one.
Yeah, the car bit is true, but on the other hand, we have very little paid parking, what exists is all free, there's no congestion charge anywhere in the country, the only toll roads are the Great Belt bridge and the Øresund bridge. And perhaps most of all is the Driver tax rebate. The government spends 18 billion kroner a year on tax rebates for those commuting over 24km to and from work, so 12km/8 miles each way minimum. These costs are based on gas prices, but in short these tax rebates mostly benefit drivers more than anyone else, and not only subsidises but encourages car dependent living since it encourages people to live further from their workplace in order to get the rebate and get the costs of their car commute covered, whereas transit prices are so high the rebates can't cover the expenses of them. I personally hate this tax rebate and firmly believes these 18 billion kroner every year are much better spent improving transit! For 8-10 billion per year you could double the number of departures on every bus line in the whole country! For 1.5-3 billion per year you could slash all ticket prices in half! And that'd still leave 5-7.5 billion kroner every year in spares that could be used for tax cuts, additional transit services, or infrastructure investments like new Light rail or BRT routes, or new rail upgrades like double tracking lines. All of this, just for the money spent today subsidising mainly drivers, without needing to cut welfare or anything to make ends meet! Like all of these changes would encourage denser living, and greater transit use, and transit expansion to meet more peoples needs, plus make it more affordable to do any kind of trip, not just going to and from work.
@@MilesinTransit Also if you want a good tip on pronoucing the words å is a very hard o and our J is very soft. æ & ø is just hard to learn in general.
A new light rail system is opening up in Copenhagen in 2025. It goes all the way from the Danish Technical University (DTU) North of Copenhagen around the west of Copenhagen to the Southwest of Copenhagen to Ishøj.
Miles and Simon marvelling at the insanity that is the Danish language for 25 minutes straight… Also funny how those trains are probably older than the newest trains in American yet even with the weathering and graffiti STILL LOOK NEWER and more modern than any of the new stuff in North American. With the exception of Stadler, Siemens and Alstom stuff. I’m specifically referring to that “All American Stainless Steel”…
I was impressed with the open gangways and LED maps, also! Those both feel like technologies we're only just starting to get into in the states (NYC notwithstanding).
@@MilesinTransit Yeah. If you're curious btw the trains are the so called 4th generation built by a consortium of Siemens and Linke Hoffman Busch (later part of Alstom) between 1995 and 2007. So we had these trains in service as early as 1996.
12:50 homelessness is almost a choice in Denmark, at least when it comes to sleeping outside. We don’t really need hostile architecture and I personally don’t support it.
Wish people would stop tagging. Used to be a more innocent thing, but these days it's almost always losers from some gang trying to mark "their" territory. As for thanking the bus driver - I guess it depends on the area. I feel it's fairly common around Aarhus.
Welcome to Denmark, that stuff is the norm here. Like take the metro. Great service and nice stations but very odd routes that have actually made the transit system worse (plus a financing plan thats basically a growth ponzi scheme). The buses have good branding and integration with other modes but are extremely slow and overcrowded, and burdened with constant budget cuts thanks to national political incompetence.
Welcome to Denmark! Great to finally be seeing these misadventures from you. As a local then yeah, the S-train is a solid system but my god the dirty trains and high ticket prices dont do it any favours. The rollout of CBTC over the last several years have helped a lot with reliability, but a lot of the public still see the system as unreliable. And yeah projects for the S-train network (and transit in Copenhagen in general) keep getting delayed or put into Limbo because our minister for transport SUUUUUCKS! Also fun fact. The Copenhagen S-train is actually profitable on its own and the profits generated from it subsidises the Intercity services across the country. Aaaaand both the mainline and S-train divisions of DSB have chronic rolling stock shortages which is why the trains are SO DIRTY! They literally dont have enough trainsets to take a dirty or dysfunctional one out of service and repair it, and still have enough to do the service required.
It feels like they've given up a bit on the S-Trains, maybe it's because they're going to be replaced in the future anyway? Once the first routes are automated, they can probably start decommission the worst conditioned trains. So they're sparing maintenance time and costs on them. Is my guess. It's been a few years since I've really used these trains, back then they were in much better shape.
Unpopular opinion the graffiti windows look kinda sick...it's like being inside an urban art piece 😂 those trains really are for the dogs tho, not much else to be done with them
You trying to pronounce Rødovre was hilarious. I live next to that stop for 2 years now, and I only just got barely to the point where I can somewhat pronounce it.
If she wanted even more then here are a few. Niels Bohr, the famous physicist is from Denmark Hans Christian Andersen, the world famous fairy tale writer and creator of stories like The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid, The Tinderbox, and many others is also from Denmark. Specifically Odense. Denmark has the oldest flag still in use in the world. Legend goes it fell from the sky in 1219 as Denmark was at a low point in a battle for conquest in Estonia, and the flag gave the people the will to keep on and win. The worlds most highly regarded restaurant, NOMA, is in Copenhagen. Several Video games like Hitman Agent 47, Subway Surfers, Deep Rock Galactic, Hugo the screen troll, Limbo, Inside, A Hat in Time, Stikbold, and Freedom Planet are all Danish in origin. Actor Mads Mikkelsen is Danish Of course Lukas Graham is too, whether you like it or not Miles Denmark is one of the flattest countries in the world, its tallest natural point is iirc only 173m/567ft high. Its lower than even the Netherlands' tallest point (and there's a great Tim Traveller video on it) Denmark and Sweden have been at war more than any 2 other nations on earth. I guess we have some decent football players... like Michael Schumacher? IDK I dont watch sports much (plus Handball is our bigger strength). Denmark inspired Tolkiens world in Lord of the Rings, with several locations directly referencing locations around Denmark. Real life Isengård exists and its pretty close to Aarhus, and they've taken all the hobbits there. Hmmm. One of the worlds largest Counter Strike teams, Astralis, is based in Denmark. Bjarke Ingels, that big crazy architect, is also Danish. Lemme think.... ooh y'know those little troll figures, like the ones that are also in the Dreamworks Movie "Trolls"? Those were invented by a Danish guy too in a small Danish town. Yeah thats it. Anyone else that can think of anything, lemme know.
Top ten weirdest languages. #10 There are no weird languages. All are unique and different and beautiful in their own way. ❤ . . . . . . . . #1 Danish btw, this is just a joke. I have nothing against Danes. ❤🇩🇰 ❤ Also, great video as always Miles.
Yeah interesting. Last time I rode the S-train I don't think it was like this, but it was probably 10 years ago or so. Since then I have mostly changed trains in Copenhagen and taken a few metro rides. The metro is not like this from what I can remember. I believe the S-tog is run by DSB, basically the equivalent of DB, whereas the metro is run by the city.
A little less than 10 years ago the timetable was changed to introduce 10 min all day service on all lines. This means there is only 2 trains spare everyday before trains have to start being short formed, so unfortunately grafitti cleaning is a low priority. More trains should really have been ordered with the service increase
@@Simon-Andersen Ah interesting. Well at least they run, Stockholm's Pendeltåg look fine physically but they (MTR) scared away all the train drivers with their shitty working conditions. Honestly I think graffiti removal is a higher priority than service here 😅
This is a fantastic system that feels like a time warp to 1980s NYC because of all the graffiti everywhere and how tired the trains feel. It's very odd and feels out of place.
Ive been to Denmark and its an amazing country, Copenhagen is really nice but Roskilde is also lovely too. You didn't show the pigeon infestation though in the station
What isn't really obvious if you're a new rider is that these trains are specifically designed to sound like the old ones they replaced, everything from the engine spooling to the brakes to the doors and the chimes are made to sound reminiscent of those older trains with a modern twist.
I always enjoy videos from tourists, but this ones rubs me the wrong way. I feel a strange "stereotypical American" condescending tone throughout the video. But I suspect the creator is quite immature, and that might be the reason.
Bakken, also accessible via the S-tog (but not as easily accessible, its an 11min walk-but its just down the street so some people might get there quicker) is the oldest amusement park in the world
In Denmark and Norway, the å is "oh," (like Ohio); the æ is pronounced "ay" (like ate), and the ø is pronounced "ur" (like Earl). In Sweden and Finland, the æ is replaced by ä and the ø is replaced by ö.
Except it's way more complicated than that in Danish haha. All vowels in Danish can either be long or short depending on stress patterns, and most vowels change sound when followed by certain consonants. Å can for instance also be pronounced as the o in "others" and år- is quite similar to "awe". Ær- is pronounced like the vowel in "hair" and long ø is pronounced like french e/eu which is a vowel that I don't think exist in English at all. And then most vowels also exists with or without "stød" which is this quite uniquely Danish creaky voice thing (which is probably the main reason why Swedes and Norwegians thinks Danish sounds weird since they use pitch accents instead)
I mean, doing my time as a traveller and now as an insider into DSB, i would say, personally I think the S-Train is awesome, but the stock itself needs something more, it's confirmed that the driverless system will arrive (if not delayed) and be done in 2038, that's still over 10 years away, and we need something new to replace the 4th Gen. Litra SA/SE
Reminds me of the DC metro, which also has around every ten mins on the truck lines. Somehow the DC metro has nicer rolling stock that is not full of graffiti? Crazy!
Having spent 5 days in Copenhagen in 2022, the graffiti was one of the more shocking things. However, I did love the convenience of trackside and in-station convenience stores. For a commerce driven country like the US, why aren’t they the norm?
@@qjtvaddict Are you referring to the 7/11s? Do you mean the old timey newspaper kiosks? Yeah, that's fair. I have seen those. I think some stations still do have them although they were more limited in product selection I believe.
@@anthonylamesa7619 The main issue seems to be that they don't have enough trains. Most rail systems will take a grafittied train out of service until it can be cleaned, but the S-tog system doesn't have enough spare trains to do that without cancelling services.
A part of the problem is that they don't have enough spare trains to take the graffitied ones out of service for cleaning, so once the graffiti is discovered, the cleaning will have to wait until the night. But graffiti is indeed an outrageous problem in Copenhagen compared to other cities. And it completely beats me why they can't keep the trains in depots at night, built for the money they would save by not having to clean them...
@@troelspeterroland6998 I do not know who are doing this graffiti because I have yet to met a native Dane that appreciate it or know anyone that do it. Such a waste of resources. Pure eye pollution.
The S-train plan is a part of the "Finger-plan" which was an urban plan devised back in 1947 for the long term development of the Copenhagen metropolitan area. It's called so because if you place your hand with the palm on the center of the city, your fingers roughly marks the lines of transportation, both freeways, trains and bus lines, that service the suburban areas of Copenhagen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Plan
Not like I have many other places to compare to, but if this is "incredible" compared to the rest of Europe and the states then I truly feel bad for them.
