{"id":171326,"date":"2025-01-30T14:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T04:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=171326"},"modified":"2025-01-30T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T04:43:09","slug":"so-satisfying-weird-thing-tourists-love-about-sydney-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=171326","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;So satisfying&#8217;: Weird thing tourists love about Sydney trains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Forget the golden sands of Bondi and the soaring arch of the harbour bridge: Sydney is winning over tourists with its trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the fact that most Aussies come back from Europe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.escape.com.au\/destinations\/europe\/uk\/10-things-england-does-better-than-australia\/image-gallery\/221c9943528269799826a2661d59f70a\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raving about its loco-motive network<\/a>&nbsp;and bemoaning the fact that we can&#8217;t inter-rail around Australia, there is, apparently, something cool about Aussie trains that Aussies don&#8217;t appreciate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That something? We can change the direction of our seats. Scottish traveller Chloe Frater found this mind-blowing, making a video entitled, &#8220;When people ask why I&#8217;m obsessed with Australia.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the clip she shows viewers how you can flip a train seat so that it either faces forward or backward, making your journey more or less social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sydney is living in 2035,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video sparked a flurry of love for the city of Bin Chickens and Dodgy Pubs That Have Been Gentrified.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comments section of the clip is full of remarks like &#8220;I\u2019m from Aus and didn\u2019t even know this exists&#8221; and &#8220;omg that is sooo cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-21-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-21-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-21-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-21-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-21.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Threw me first time someone did this on the train.,&#8221; one TikTok user commented. Pictures via TikTok (@chloefrater)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others said things like: &#8220;I need to move to Australia&#8221; and &#8220;that is so satisfying.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the video fails to take into account is the awkwardness of using the seats to face someone (unless it&#8217;s a good friend) and the fact that the trains\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/nsw-act\/news\/very-hopeful-rail-unions-to-present-counteroffer-to-government-amid-transport-chaos-storm\/news-story\/e0fab24082cd52bb0ff8ed0bc4d875f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">actually need to be running<\/a>\u00a0for anyone to make use of this feature.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists think Sydney is &#8220;living in 2035&#8221; because of a feature we have on our trains. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":167739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,47,2695],"tags":[5026,2139],"class_list":["post-171326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-rail-news","category-sydney-trains","tag-nsw","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171329,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171326\/revisions\/171329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}