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.
Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it
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#12It 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.
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#13love 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
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#14I got 6 out of 9 and haven’t lived there in 10 years. Felt some nostalgia hearing some of them though!!!
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.
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#15It 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.
And yet I could tell them apart with pretty good confidence. Why?
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#16Elizabeth is the only one I use frequently so I got them mostly wrong.
Technically, not an underground line.
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#17Somehow 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.
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#18Eh 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.
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#20Quite 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.