MISC | Does your metro make a sound when the doors close?

[NYC2ORDGuy]

You know, some metros have an automated announcement, some have a live announcer, some have a bell or buzzer.

Here in Chicago, we have a recorded "ding-dong" followed by a recorded male voice (sounding like a Disneyland monorail announcer) announcing "Doors Closing".

http://chicago-l.org/multimedia/soun...orsClosing.wav

Seems silly to me, the order. I've always thought there should be the announcement first and then the ding-dong chime.

What is funny is that the ding-dong is the same chime the Lisbon Metro uses right before the recorded stop announcement plays ("Ding-dong...Proxima Estacao: Alameda"). Lisbon being the center of my known universe, when I moved to Chicago in 2003, this fact tickled me utterly.

[ailiton]

Hong Kong MTR


In-train
Please stand back from the doors

[Gil]

Here's an interesting website dedicated to the minutiae of the world's meto/subway systems. This particular page is on the announcements/sounds made at each station.

http://mic-ro.com/metro/announcements.html

[AmiDelf]

Here they say so.. "Dørene lukkes".. which means.. doors is closing on the train and subway. On trams they have automatic doors, which closes just when no one is going in between them.

[DarkFenX]

In Boston they beep.

[samsonyuen]

In Toronto there used to be a whistle from the driver, but now it's a three-note chime. For some reason, I can't think of London's, even though I got off it an hour ago.

[carpanatomy]

Originally Posted by samsonyuen

In Toronto there used to be a whistle from the driver, but now it's a three-note chime. For some reason, I can't think of London's, even though I got off it an hour ago.

for those who wondering what are the "three-note chime", it's basically the first three notes of the Sesame Street theme song... :P

[Mojito]

In Amsterdam it is an electronic 'ding-dong' signal.

In Rotterdam, the old trains have a 'ping' sound, while the new trains have a two-tone beep signal with three beeps (low-high-low) similar to the door closing sound on the Berlin S-Bahn trains.

[JDRS]

On London Underground a whistle sound is made or a beeping sound.

[willo]

in madrid a long beep is made

[mrtfreak]

Singapore:
(Operated by SMRT)
MRT: Ding-Dong "Doors Closing" Beep-beep-beep
LRT: "Doors closing, next station ____________"

(Operated by SBS Transit)
MRT: "Doors closing" beep beep beep
LRT: "Doors closing, please stand clear of doors" Beep beep beep

Kuala Lumpur:
Putra: chime (ding-dong tune)
Star: up-down tune
Monorail: up-down tune
ERL: breep breep breep
KTM Komuter: up-down tune

[Bitxofo]

In Barcelona: a several-notes sound before closing doors.

[HelloMoto163]

subway

berlin: electronic voice: "zurück bleiben bitte"(back remain please) "peep peep peep"

[firmanhadi]

New York: "Ding Dong!" then the Conductor's voice "Stand clear the closing door"

[nikko]

Older trains: "ding-dong...Doors Closing, Please stand clear"

Newer trains: "ding-dong...Doors Closing, Pease stand clear...beep, beep, beep, beep, beep"

[Palal]

Originally Posted by firmanhadi

New York: "Ding Dong!" then the Conductor's voice "Stand clear the closing door"

Actually it's "Stand Clear of the Closing Doors Please" and then the two-note one-third chime.
And on newer trains, it's automated.

[DoubleR]

Tokyo, Subway Asakusa Line (Keikyu train in this soundfile) the door chaim with the sound of built-in Variable Frequency Drive (IGBT) when the train moves.

Click here to listen

[shrudder]

Originally Posted by firmanhadi

New York: "Ding Dong!" then the Conductor's voice "Stand clear the closing door"

To be exact "Stand clear of the closing doors please" and it is much clearer than the announcement on older rolling stocks, because of better speakers

[drunkenmunkey888]

Originally Posted by firmanhadi

New York: "Ding Dong!" then the Conductor's voice "Stand clear the closing door"

More like, "sanclearclosedoor" then ding dong

[RRC]

In São paulo we have just a long beep.