100 pointsby nelson6874 hours ago17 comments
  • walthamstow3 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.
    • sumo89an hour 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.
      • doublesocket10 minutes ago
        Given their username I would raise you that they're on the victoria line :-)
      • CamouflagedKiwi35 minutes ago
        And, fortunately, the sheer temperature of it...
  • spuz3 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.
    • calpaterson2 hours ago
      And yet I could tell them apart with pretty good confidence. Why?
      • IshKebaban hour ago
        You got lucky and thought it was skill?
  • vishkk10 minutes ago
    Pretty cool —- should do it for NYC subways!
  • CamouflagedKiwi36 minutes ago
    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.

  • ssss113 hours ago
    I got 6 out of 9 and haven’t lived there in 10 years. Felt some nostalgia hearing some of them though!!!
    • calpaterson2 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.
  • dole44 minutes ago
    As a Yank, first thought that came to mind was using geolocation by mains hum because you can.
  • dudefeliciano3 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
  • MrsPeaches3 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.

    • Reason0773 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.
    • ssss113 hours ago
      Jubilee I found pretty easy too
  • jeffwass2 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.
  • bb1233 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.
  • personalitysonan hour ago
    Never been to London, 3 out of 9 correct.
  • mpascale003 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.
  • OPBoot3 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!)

    • jojobas3 hours ago
      I got 6/9 and I've never been there.
  • manojlds3 hours ago
    Elizabeth is the only one I use frequently so I got them mostly wrong.
    • maleldil2 hours ago
      Technically, not an underground line.
  • Markoffan hour ago
    I'd like this for subway escalator sounds, I loved one somewhere in Prague city center which made exactly Sicario soundtrack rhytm.
  • IshKebaban hour 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.
  • fennecfoxyan hour 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.

    • reifiedgent40 minutes ago
      are you aware that the Metro in Paris has trains with rubber wheels?