Discussion
Guess the Tube Line
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.
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.
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!)
manojlds: Elizabeth is the only one I use frequently so I got them mostly wrong.
Reason077: 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: Jubilee I found pretty easy too
jojobas: I got 6/9 and I've never been there.
ssss11: I got 6 out of 9 and haven’t lived there in 10 years. Felt some nostalgia hearing some of them though!!!
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.
maleldil: Technically, not an underground line.
calpaterson: And yet I could tell them apart with pretty good confidence. Why?
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.
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.
IshKebab: You got lucky and thought it was skill?
sumo89: 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.
