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Sturges Road

Ice-cream van jingle.

  • E-WEast-West line
  • West family
  • Guitar signature

Why Sturges Road sounds like this

An ice-cream van plays a wobbly jingle through a tinny speaker. Sturges Road is named for a family who lived here in the 1800s, and today it runs through quiet suburban streets. The chime is simply summer in them: the van's tune drifting round in the evening and kids running out to meet it.

Inside the chime

Sturges Road's chime runs about 4 seconds, in two parts. Every station's chime ends on its family's signature, so you can tell roughly where you are by ear.

  1. 1

    Sturges Road's own motif 3.0 s

    Ice-cream van jingle. No other station plays it.

  2. 2

    The West family's guitar 1.0 s

    Three plucked guitar notes climbing a major chord. It covers the western suburbs.

On the network

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