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  • Location: New Zealand
  • Location: New Zealand
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Fewer people or more carriages.

I've never been on the tube without feeling like a sardine (oil and all unfortunately - they aren't exactly the cleanest trains in the world)

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  • Location: 4 miles north of Durham City
  • Location: 4 miles north of Durham City
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flood them from brixton :)

LOL

On a more serious note; perhaps have some form of liquid-cooling heat-pipe system that runs along the tunnels and advects heat upwards?

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  • Location: Brixton, South London
  • Location: Brixton, South London
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flood them from brixton ;)

Oh really?

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  • Location: Worthing West Sussex
  • Location: Worthing West Sussex
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flood them from brixton :)

Westminster or Embankment would be more cost effective :)

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  • Location: Haverhill Suffolk UK
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  • Location: Haverhill Suffolk UK
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Air Conditioning :o

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  • Location: Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
  • Location: Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
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Been on the tube a few times when I lived in the smoke for a bit (quite a handy way of getting around town). Hadn't realised it was so hot to be honest. Smelly, yes.

How about, erm, some intakes at the front that blast air through the carriages as it trundles along, thus evaporating water from our stinking sweaty bodies, taking the heat with it. Dunno. (This of course will be no use when it inevitably just stops in the middle of nowhere, plunging you into total darkness, leaving you wondering why it's stopped, and getting a bit of a sweat-on worrying about the next train coming along, and whether everyone's going to die in a nasty collision).

Leaves on the line - presumably not!

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Was down in London couple of weeks ago and the tube was roasting! Even with the windows at the ends of the carriages down. Dont know what the answer would be to be honest without the cost being prohibitive.

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  • Location: SE London
  • Location: SE London
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Dont usually travel on the tube, but using the train these last few days for work has been just as bad. last week i was going home after a night shift and the train even had its heating on :):(

i dont really know the answer for the tube, but would think in this day and age there would be a technology available to cool the tunnels down. perhaps the vent shafts could blow cooler air past refrigeration coilsinto the tunnels. then recycle the air through exhaust vent. :) that may help :D

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  • Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent
  • Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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Air Conditioning :)

Sub surface lines will have air conditioned trains from 2011

However for the deeper lines air conditioning is not suitable as there is nowhere to dispose of the hot air (only into tunnels and stations)

The idea of using water from the water table to cool platforms and tunnels was mooted a while ago but seems to have gone away now

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  • Location: SE London
  • Location: SE London
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Sub surface lines will have air conditioned trains from 2011 However for the deeper lines air conditioning is not suitable as there is nowhere to dispose of the hot air (only into tunnels and stations) The idea of using water from the water table to cool platforms and tunnels was mooted a while ago but seems to have gone away now
yeah they couldn't evacuate the warmer air from the platforms because the vent shafts are either inadequate, or in some cases, blocked up. i know some of the vents have now been reopened but still cannot understand why they just cant put air conditioning units throught out the system. ok it may mean having to run lots of pipes to vent the warm air away, but the infrastructure could cope with that i woudl think. as i said earlier, as a train commuter i dont really have to use the tube much, and am glad i dont. feel for those who do though
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  • Location: Putney, SW London. A miserable 14m asl....but nevertheless the lucky recipient of c 20cm of snow in 12 hours 1-2 Feb 2009!
  • Location: Putney, SW London. A miserable 14m asl....but nevertheless the lucky recipient of c 20cm of snow in 12 hours 1-2 Feb 2009!
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How about, erm, some intakes at the front that blast air through the carriages as it trundles along, thus evaporating water from our stinking sweaty bodies, taking the heat with it.

We have those - they're called windows. Unfortunately when the train is packed, the wind blowing in at the front gets slowed/diverted/warmed so effectively by the tighty-packed bodies that within a couple of feet it has little effect. I must, however, say that however hot and uncomfortable it gets, I rarely find myself offended by BO - London commuters seem to be a remarkably hygienic bunch these days, on the whole.

I don't know whether there is a solution to the sometimes almost intolerable heat. I tend to find it worst in the deep lines - the very ones where a solution seems most elusive. Cost is, of course, the overriding problem.

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  • Location: Nuneaton 300ft
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and heatwave
  • Location: Nuneaton 300ft
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Just come across this thread

I travel on the tube every day (over 80 mins inc waiting) 4 different tubes on top of a 2hr over land train journey

I work near tower hill and hence 'The Tower' so have to battle against 300,000 tourist everyday even to get on the tube

Permission to whinge about the heat and london tube :rolleyes:

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  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Location: Edinburgh
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You do what we did when my friends and I were in London a while back.

Talk loudly in a Glasgow accent, push your way to the carrage window and stand beside it. Though honestly, the London Tube smells better than the Glasgow Subway count yourself lucky on that one.

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