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Underground intercom system

Calle de Pío Felipe, Portazgo, Puente de Vallecas, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, 28038, España

A 4-minute field recording by Sono Mayrit made in Puente de Vallecas, Spain on 8 January 2026, in the evening. Soundscape: trains & stations, trams, metros & buses and caves, tunnels & underground.

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Underground intercom system
4:12CC BY 3.0by Sono MayritInternet Archive
4:12
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Recordist's notes

At Buenos Aires station, we can hear several interesting things when we stop to listen carefully. For example, the old entrance doors, which rotate, or the magnetic exit doors, which make loud noises. A father and son arrive with one bicycle, and since bicycles cannot pass through these old doors, they need to open a special door on the edge. Until a few years ago, when there was still a ticket office that became an information booth and finally nothing at all, they would open the door for you personally. Now you must contact a central office via an intercom, from which, monitored by a camera, they do it remotely.

Written by Sono Mayrit on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Puente de Vallecas is a city of about 244,151 people in Madrid, Spain. OttoAnna lists 47 field recordings from here.

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