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            "content_html": "<p>First read <a href=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/stockholm-metro\/\">the introductory post about Stockholm metro<\/a>. Now, let’s look at the trains.<\/p>\n<p>The new train:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9182.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">Stadion<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The display above the door shows the destination station:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9109.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Mind the gap:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9110.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Inside:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9233.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Closer. Note the pictograms on the door:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8647.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Typesetting:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9106.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Different angle:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8649.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The line diagram on a transparent background next to the doors:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9104.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>More pictograms:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8735.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>At stations, the driver leans halfway out of the train to see the people when announcing that the doors are closing:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8589.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The old train:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9214.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">Kungsträdgården<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The train at the most incredible station:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9304.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">Solna centrum<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>I’ll cover it in the next post.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the old train:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9079.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The view in the opposite direction:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9083.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The diagram on the ceiling:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9080.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The transport system ads:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9086.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Simple but effective:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9082.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A freight train passes:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-IMG_4102.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The pictures are from the trip in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/stockholm-metro-solna-centrum\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/stockholm-metro\/\">Stockholm metro<\/a> (introduction)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n",
            "summary": "First read the introductory post about Stockholm metro. Now, let’s look at the trains",
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            "content_html": "<p>This is a kind of photos you usually see in blog posts titled “Stockholm metro”:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9390.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">Rådhuset<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>You may think that all Stockholm metro is like this. But when you come to Stockholm and go to the metro, what you see is this:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8646.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">Skanstull<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Not all stations are fantastic, you must know where to go. I will get to the good ones, but will start with the other things.<\/p>\n<p>The station entrances are denoted with the letter T, because metro is a “tunnel road” (tunnelbana). The entrance from the central rail station:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8587.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">T-Centralen<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In Swedish, the definite article is expressed as a suffix, including <i>-n<\/i>, so sometimes you see a funny word tunnelbanan (“the tunnel road”):<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-IMG_4099.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The entrance in the old town:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8666.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">Gamla stan<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Another one in the central part of the city:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8625.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">Medborgarplatsen<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The “T” thing itself is of a very nice form:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8668.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">Gamla stan<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And it is glowing at night:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8909.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">Slussen<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A lift at one of the stations:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8755.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The map of the metro and suburban trains:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8574.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>You can find the stations Skanstull, Medborgarplatsen, Slussen, Gamla stan in the centre.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket machines:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8583.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>There is a unified graphic style for the transport system. I will show the airport and the central railway station later. They all use the same font, the Swedish text is always white and the English one is yellow. But on the metro, only the posters follow this style. Other elements are inconsistent in their design.<\/p>\n<p>Let’s get it. A beautiful font:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8923.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A platform. The letters on the display are gigantic. Looks right:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8928.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This display informs about escalator direction:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-IMG_4106.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>One of the platforms at T-Centralen, where the central railway station is:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8935.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A station name:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8934.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Now let me guide you to a more impressive platform at the same station. Follow the signs:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8936.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Helvetica, rectangles, arrows (the display on the left says “not down”):<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8938.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And here we are on the platform of the blue  T10 and T11 lines:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9407.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption class=\"e2-text-caption\">T-Centralen, blue lines<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>We’ll get back to this later.<\/p>\n<p>A standard hanging sign with the station name, Helvetica again:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8651.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And here’s another style, on a blue background:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF9077.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The same style is used for remaining stations list:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8655.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Another one:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/stockholm-metro-DSCF8658.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The pictures are from the trip in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/stockholm-metro-trains\/\">Сontinued<\/a><\/p>\n",
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