Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it

bb123

Nice! It would be fun to include some of the other sounds on the tube like the door closing chimes or the sounds the doors make when opening and closing.

walthamstow

Incredible fun. I got every one wrong except the line I live on and use all the time. I couldn't tell any of the others apart much, but I knew my line instantly, without any doubt. Fascinating.

OPBoot

Enjoyed that. Not lived in London for 30 years, but some sounds never leave you... I got 5/9 on the Tube Sound Quiz! (better than random!)

MrsPeaches

Loved this! A bit deep to put district and circle as options on the same question. Don’t they use the same rolling stock and cover very similar stations? I found Bakerloo was the easiest to identify.

ssss11

I got 6 out of 9 and haven’t lived there in 10 years. Felt some nostalgia hearing some of them though!!!

manojlds

Elizabeth is the only one I use frequently so I got them mostly wrong.

mpascale00

It was fun to guess these without being familiar. I sort of guessed based on vague knowledge of age and name familiarity. Maybe I was lucky.

spuz

It seems a little unfair to include the circle and metropolitan lines as they use the same rolling stock and run on the same tracks in the centre of the city.

dudefeliciano

love this kind of games, if we ever get consumer grade smell-o-vision i will make the same to identify berlin underground lines by smell

jeffwass

Somehow I got a 7 out of 9, even though I felt like I was mostly guessing. Surface vs deep lines have more rumble but that’s about it that I consciously knew of.

fennecfoxy

Eh they all sound like SCREEEEEHEEEEECHCCCCHEEEEEE now anyway because TFL are incapable of doing basic maintenance overnight (such as grinding the rails) without using expensive contractors that eat money up. After being in Paris over the weekend the state of the underground cleanliness/noise is just absolutely shameful.

IshKebab

Quite fun. It doesn't make sense to have it as a list of multiple choice questions though since by the end you know the answers by a process of elimination. I'd change it so you see all the sounds and lines and have to match them up.

personalityson

Never been to London, 3 out of 9 correct.

Markoff

I'd like this for subway escalator sounds, I loved one somewhere in Prague city center which made exactly Sicario soundtrack rhytm.

dole

As a Yank, first thought that came to mind was using geolocation by mains hum because you can.

CamouflagedKiwi

5 / 9 Found much of it pretty hard - I'd be confident of telling a modern subsurface line from a deep one, or the Jubilee (which to me at least has a very distinct motor sound), but for lots of the others I was guessing - sometimes with luck though, apparently.

vishkk

Pretty cool —- should do it for NYC subways!

hobofan

From the title I had assumed this would be about the "old" classic "Conductor" Google Experiment by Alexander Chen[0] or a recreation of it. [0]: http://mta.me

ricardobayes

Hah, I just thought of this randomly the other day that London metro lines have such distinct soundscapes.

player_piano

Oh Northern line, I would recognize that ear-splitting screech anywhere.