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Departing Metros



Short videos of what best characterizes the subways in different cities: trains leaving stations, including the typical departure sounds or announcements. (Some videos even tell humble short stories of doors opening again for late passengers, drivers acting like showmen, or passengers leaping through closing doors.)

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Last update to this page: 29 June 2008 (Lisbon, Oporto, and Toulouse added).

Berlin

Line U8 train departing from Rathaus Reinickendorf station.

Length: 25 sec.

Bilbao

Departing metro train.

Length: 20 sec.

Boston

Red Line train departing from Harvard station.

Length: 29 sec.

Cologne

Stadtbahn line 3 train departing from Körnerstr. station.

Length: 20 sec.

Frankfurt

Line U4 train leaving Festhalle/Messe station.

Length: 23 sec.

Genoa

Train leaving Brin station for the holding track.

Length: 12 sec.

Hamburg

Line U1 train departing from Klosterstern station.

Length: 20 sec.

Helsinki

Train departing from Rautatientori station (central station).

Length: 20 sec.

Hong Kong

Train departing from Tung Chung station ("Please stand back from the platform screen doors").

Length: 38 sec.

Lisbon

Red Line train departing from Olivais station.

Length: 20 sec.

London

Arriving train and the famous "Mind the Gap!" voice. The station is probably Piccadilly Circus.

Length: 21 sec.

London

Jubilee Line train departing from Canary Wharf station.

Length: 13 sec.

Milan

Departing Line M2 train.

Length: 21 sec.

Montréal

Blue Line train departing from Outremont station.

Length: 22 sec.

Moscow

Line 5 train arriving at and departing from Komsomolskaya station. Video by RapsakYT.

Length: 58 sec.

Munich

Type B train on line U2, departing from Kolumbusplatz station. The sound is somehow corrupted because there's another train arriving at the opposite platform.

Length: 30 sec.

Naples

Line 1 train departing from Museo station.

Length: 27 sec.

Newcastle

Green Line train departing from Airport station.

Length: 22 sec.

New York

Northbound 6 train departing from 33rd Street station.

Length: 25 sec.

Nuremberg

Line U2 train departing from Hauptbahnhof station (central station).

Length: 48 sec.

Oporto

Line D train departing from Marquez station.

Length: 30 sec.

Paris

Line 6 train departing from Pasteur station. This is the sound of a rubber-tyred metro.

Length: 24 sec.

Prague

Line B train departing from Staromestska station.

Length: 36 sec.

Rhine-Ruhr

Line U11 train departing from Essen Messe-Ost/Gruga station. This is one of the former London Docklands trains.

Length: 18 sec.

Rio de Janeiro

Line 1 train departing from Estacio station.

Length: 43 sec.

Rotterdam

Erasmuslijn train departing from Wilhelminaplein station. Note how the station lights change after the departure of the train.

Length: 34 sec.

Saint Petersburg

Departing metro train.

Length: 20 sec.

Shanghai

Line 4 train departing from Yangshupu Road station.

Length: 35 sec.

Shanghai Maglev

Maglev train departing from Longyang station (ready to rush to Pudong airport within 7 minutes at 430 km/h).

Length: 40 sec.

Shenzhen

Train departing from Huizhan Zhongxin station.

Length: 31 sec.

Stockholm

A Blue Line train departing from Rinkeby station.

Length: 26 sec.

Stuttgart

Line U7 metro tram departing from Schlossplatz station.

Length: 15 sec.

Toronto

Sheppard-Line train leaving Don Mills station. Video by wyliepoon.

Length: 30 sec.

Toulouse

Line A VAL train departing from Mermoz station.

Length: 20 sec.

Turin

Rubber-tyred VAL train leaving one of the stations opened in 2006.

Length: 20 sec.

Vienna

Line U1 train entering and leaving Aderklaaer Straße station. Video by speedtram.

Length: 56 sec.


All videos ©2004-2008 M. Rohde, except where indicated otherwise.




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