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Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it

by nelson687 on 4/7/2026, 10:08:25 AM

https://tubesoundquiz.com/

Comments

by: 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.

4/7/2026, 11:13:21 AM


by: 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.

4/7/2026, 11:54:53 AM


by: ssss11

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

4/7/2026, 11:39:37 AM


by: personalityson

Never been to London, 3 out of 9 correct.

4/7/2026, 1:25:32 PM


by: 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.

4/7/2026, 12:52:41 PM


by: 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

4/7/2026, 11:55:51 AM


by: MrsPeaches

Loved this!<p>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?<p>I found Bakerloo was the easiest to identify.

4/7/2026, 11:22:51 AM


by: 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.

4/7/2026, 11:00:37 AM


by: 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.

4/7/2026, 11:47:02 AM


by: Markoff

I&#x27;d like this for subway escalator sounds, I loved one somewhere in Prague city center which made exactly Sicario soundtrack rhytm.

4/7/2026, 1:26:11 PM


by: IshKebab

Quite fun. It doesn&#x27;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&#x27;d change it so you see all the sounds and lines and have to match them up.

4/7/2026, 1:21:05 PM


by: OPBoot

Enjoyed that. Not lived in London for 30 years, but some sounds never leave you...<p>I got 5&#x2F;9 on the Tube Sound Quiz!<p>(better than random!)

4/7/2026, 11:21:29 AM


by: manojlds

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

4/7/2026, 11:43:15 AM


by: 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.<p>After being in Paris over the weekend the state of the underground cleanliness&#x2F;noise is just absolutely shameful.

4/7/2026, 12:59:17 PM