Hot Weather Affects the London Tube

Oct 2, 2012 by FinerVanalst511

The soaring temperatures on the London Tube over the summer months have been a problem for some years now. A London Underground team has attempted to come up with some engineering solutions to the dilemma by creating a groundwater cooling

technique. The trial, which begins this summer season, aims to make it cooler for passengers on platforms and will be tested at Victoria station which is so deep that it is properly under water and pumps out 35 litres (eight gallons) a second, to stop it coming by means of the walls. The thought of the new program is to push the water through a network of pipes into heat exchange units on the platforms, which will suck in warm air and pump out cooler air. The heat could be used to energy properties and offices above and this way the temperature will be brought down.

But this is only a trial to be tested this year and it is far from being place into operate as properly as new trains with air cooling systems that are promised for Circle, District, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan lines.

Meanwhile the temperatures in the deepest tunnels, reach 30C (86F) in summer season.

These modifications may impact the London Tube in a drastic way. Some of the Tube lines may be closed specifically on the hot summer days. London Underground assures that there are no plans to close any Tube Lines during the summer but in the future years it could get to the point “where the underground will become literally intolerable and you could face the prospect of loss of life” as Mr Livingstone from LU advised.

About 1,000 London Tube passengers were trapped for practically two hours when three trains had been held up in a tunnel. The Central Line closed after signal failures stopped the trains amongst Marble Arch and Lancaster Gate. The trains have been evacuated and 3 individuals were treated for the effects of heat.

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