Never been to London, got 6/9. Presumably anyone who did this and got a poor score isn't posting, so only people like me who got good scores by chance are represented.
walthamstow 5 hours ago [-]
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.
sumo89 3 hours ago [-]
I'd put bets on yours being the Jubilee line then, that loud whine is etched into my soul. One thing this couldn't capture for the Central line is the sheer volume of it.
doublesocket 2 hours ago [-]
Given their username I would raise you that they're on the victoria line :-)
CamouflagedKiwi 2 hours ago [-]
And, fortunately, the sheer temperature of it...
player_piano 49 minutes ago [-]
Oh Northern line, I would recognize that ear-splitting screech anywhere.
joshuafuller 26 minutes ago [-]
I spent a single day in the London tube about 3 weeks ago on travel. Have never been on the tube before. Was a cool experience. Somehow I got 7/9 on the quiz.
spuz 4 hours ago [-]
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.
agile-gift0262 1 hours ago [-]
I couldn't tell them apart
calpaterson 4 hours ago [-]
And yet I could tell them apart with pretty good confidence. Why?
IshKebab 3 hours ago [-]
You got lucky and thought it was skill?
tgulacsi 25 minutes ago [-]
5/9 - I've never been in London and never heard these sounds before :)
ssss11 5 hours ago [-]
I got 6 out of 9 and haven’t lived there in 10 years. Felt some nostalgia hearing some of them though!!!
graemep 41 minutes ago [-]
I got five and I have not lived there for over 20 years.
calpaterson 4 hours ago [-]
I got 8/9. Been away 2 years. The ones I rarely used or which don't have obvious "tells" that are hardest. For me, Jubilee is the most obvious - very distinctive sound.
totalmarkdown 28 minutes ago [-]
haha - brilliant. did you use elevenlabs to generate the sounds?
tremarley 12 minutes ago [-]
I got 7/9
ricardobayes 53 minutes ago [-]
Hah, I just thought of this randomly the other day that London metro lines have such distinct soundscapes.
hobofan 2 hours ago [-]
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.
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.
MrsPeaches 5 hours ago [-]
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.
Reason077 5 hours ago [-]
The Bakerloo sounds are indeed pretty distinctive (I lived near Kilburn Park for a while and knew it well!). But I think the easiest of all is the Jubilee line. Those melodic sounds from the traction motors that rapidly change pitch when accelerating/decelerating are so distinctive and unique.
ssss11 5 hours ago [-]
Jubilee I found pretty easy too
OPBoot 2 hours ago [-]
And yet for me Northern was the only one I hit the answer on way before the clip had finished - instant recognition
dudefeliciano 4 hours ago [-]
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
bb123 5 hours ago [-]
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.
jeffwass 3 hours ago [-]
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.
dole 3 hours ago [-]
As a Yank, first thought that came to mind was using geolocation by mains hum because you can.
vishkk 2 hours ago [-]
Pretty cool —- should do it for NYC subways!
abrugsch 1 hours ago [-]
Doesn't NYC mostly (mostly) use the same trains across the network? on the tube, each line was (historically) operated by a different train company, so most lines have a (somewhat) different profile but dedicated rolling stock to each line, along with different aged stock dependent on the procurement cycle or even age of the line itself.
Boston T would be a better one as each of the colour lines are significantly different from each other, especially concerning green line trolleys. Even having not lived there for a number of decades I could probably still pick out at least red and green line. I might struggle to pick apart orange and blue line from each other as they are pretty similar trains, but I never spent significant time on that line...
(My dad was a complete train nut and spent much of his spare time audio recording train rides around the world and when we lived in Boston, the local subway got the bulk of his attention. Here in the UK his hobby even got picked up by various TV companies and he got brought onto various talk shows to demonstrate his "Blind trainspotting" prowess by identifying various trains from their sound. All a ruse of course but it was a fun gimmick for a couple of years.)
mpascale00 4 hours ago [-]
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.
OPBoot 5 hours ago [-]
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!)
jojobas 5 hours ago [-]
I got 6/9 and I've never been there.
personalityson 3 hours ago [-]
Never been to London, 3 out of 9 correct.
manojlds 5 hours ago [-]
Elizabeth is the only one I use frequently so I got them mostly wrong.
maleldil 4 hours ago [-]
Technically, not an underground line.
walthamstow 35 minutes ago [-]
And if it was, it'd be the Elizabeth Line line.
IshKebab 3 hours ago [-]
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.
Markoff 3 hours ago [-]
I'd like this for subway escalator sounds, I loved one somewhere in Prague city center which made exactly Sicario soundtrack rhytm.
fennecfoxy 3 hours ago [-]
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.
reifiedgent 2 hours ago [-]
are you aware that the Metro in Paris has trains with rubber wheels?
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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.
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.
Boston T would be a better one as each of the colour lines are significantly different from each other, especially concerning green line trolleys. Even having not lived there for a number of decades I could probably still pick out at least red and green line. I might struggle to pick apart orange and blue line from each other as they are pretty similar trains, but I never spent significant time on that line... (My dad was a complete train nut and spent much of his spare time audio recording train rides around the world and when we lived in Boston, the local subway got the bulk of his attention. Here in the UK his hobby even got picked up by various TV companies and he got brought onto various talk shows to demonstrate his "Blind trainspotting" prowess by identifying various trains from their sound. All a ruse of course but it was a fun gimmick for a couple of years.)
I got 5/9 on the Tube Sound Quiz!
(better than random!)
After being in Paris over the weekend the state of the underground cleanliness/noise is just absolutely shameful.