Swedish Train Named "Trainy McTrainface" as "Global Revenge" for Boaty McBoatface

To quote Kent Brockman: “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Democracy simply doesn’t work.”

A public vote was held in Sweden to name four trains running between Stockholm and Gothenburg and… you know where this story is going.

Receiving 49 per cent of the vote was Trainy McTrainface, an homage to Boaty McBoatface (the name selected by the British public for a new research vessel that was instead christened the RSS Sir David Attenborough).

But the holders of the poll, MTR Express and Swedish newspaper Metro, are taking the results of the vote in good humour, accepting it as law of the land and declaring it “a global revenge for Boaty McBoatface” in a statement.

Two of the other trains have already been titled: Estelle, named for the daughter of Sweden’s Princess Victoria, and Glenn, based on the long-running Swedish joke that everyone in Gothenburg is apparently called Glenn.

(The Swedes got jokes.)

The fourth train is yet to be named. But where do you even go after Trainy McTrainface?

Photo: MTR Express