Underground heating

One of my team found themselves using the Central line recently to get to the leaving do of Mace’s construction director Gareth Lewis, who is going (sort of) after nearly three decades there. Lewis is coming back in the autumn in a roving construction role, but that’s not the point of this story. Rather, it’s to report that the Central line was stiflingly hot. Imagine my hack’s surprise, then, to find out that, according to Transport for London figures, it doesn’t hold the record for the hottest platform temperature. That belongs to the Victoria line with an average 28.2ºC last year, although this was up above 30ºC between June and October. In 2013, the Victoria line’s average temperature was recorded at a mere 21.9ºC. I blame global warming.

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