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For me, there are some sounds which encapsulate all that's good about the world's greatest ever mass transit system. The cheeky 'Ignore-me-if-you-dare' reciprocating whine of the compressors on the older Westinghouse-braked stock (I particularly remember the District line "Q" stock) is my personal favourite.

What's your all-time favourite UndergrounD sound??

I like the sound of any approaching train from a tube tunnel, you get that rush of air and the rumbling noise steadily gets louder before the train bursts into the station

My favourite sound is that of an accelerating or decelerating 96TS train.

CrunchySaviour wrote:My favourite sound is that of an accelerating or decelerating 96TS train.

Jubilee Trains?
If so I'd have to agree.

CrunchySaviour wrote:My favourite sound is that of an accelerating or decelerating 96TS train.

Deifnatly agree with that.

I also liek the sound of the doors whooshing open on these trains too.

my favourite sound on the tube on tube challenges is "this is a central line train to woodford via hainault". at the right point of the day, anyway.

CrunchySaviour wrote:My favourite sound is that of an accelerating or decelerating 96TS train.

I will also add my name to those in agreement. The noise comes from the gate turn-off thyristors that control the motors. More modern trains such as the 95TS use insulated gate bipolar transistors instead, which make a different (usually a higher and more constant frequency sound) sound.

Personally I think the M1 stock on Prague Metro Line C makes the most "interesting" noise.

I believe this links quite closely to the Geek thread.

I agree the trains sound great (though the 96TS does sound a wee bit modern to my ears); what about the other noises on the underground?

I remember the empty echo of a set of wooden escalators in a long-forgotten deserted station; the not-all-that-slow drip-drip-drip of water from the roof of Brunel's tunnel at the south end of Wapping; the almost-melodious chanting of a hopeful busker in the interchange tunnel at Leicester Square...

I always liked the sound of the werewolf from an American werewolf in London, think the station was Tottenham Court Road, but may have been part filmed at Aldwych. Anyway perhaps I should start a thread about Underground films and we call all vote about Gwyneth Paltrow.

The sound of some air conditioning would be a welcome sound

A man can dream though

The Raven wrote:The sound of some air conditioning would be a welcome sound

A man can dream though

You might hear some air con at Victoria

I agree - the Jubilee line stock has the funkiest noise in the entire world, I repeatedly annoy Sam and Steve by emulating it at any given opportunity...

Bird Song on Chalfont and Latimer station late on a summer afternoon is quite nice as I found out!

The Raven wrote:Bird Song on Chalfont and Latimer station late on a summer afternoon is quite nice as I found out!

Or the music that I've heard played there early in the morning!