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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.

Got the Northern line wrong despite doing this quiz on a Northern line train. :(

«The screeches in the audio are not that bad, it can’t be the Northern» was my thinking.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

5/9 - I've never been in London and never heard these sounds before :)

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

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.

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.

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

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.

haha - brilliant. did you use elevenlabs to generate the sounds?

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!)

Pretty cool —- should do it for NYC subways!

I got 7/9

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

Never been to London, 3 out of 9 correct.

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.

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

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.