Hot Weather Impacts the London Tube
The soaring temperatures on the London Tube more than the summer time months have been an issue for some years now. A London Underground group has attempted to come up with some engineering options to the problem by producing a groundwater cooling
system. The trial, which starts this summer, aims to make it cooler for passengers on platforms and will be tested at Victoria station which is so deep that it is successfully below water and pumps out 35 litres (eight gallons) a second, to cease it coming through the walls. The idea of the new method is to push the water via 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 utilized to energy homes 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 becoming put into function as nicely 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.
These adjustments could influence the London Tube in a drastic way. Some of the Tube lines could be closed specially on the hot summer time days. London Underground assures that there are no plans to close any Tube Lines throughout the summer time but in the future years it might get to the point “where the underground will turn out to be literally intolerable and you could face the prospect of loss of life” as Mr Livingstone from LU suggested.
About 1,000 London Tube passengers had been trapped for virtually two hours when 3 trains were held up in a tunnel. The Central Line closed right after signal failures stopped the trains in between Marble Arch and Lancaster Gate. The trains have been evacuated and three folks had been treated for the effects of heat.
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