Shocking how much the Vicky line’s temperature has shot up over the last 10 years. Afraid of what it’s going to be in another 10
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6 degrees c increase in a decade. By 2034 it’ll be 34 degrees and likely more with a warning climate. Needs serious intervention
This really needs sorting out now. People keep saying “it’s not an easy fix blah blah blah” but so what? Why does something have to be easy?! Their job is to fix it, get rid of them if they can’t do it.
Always feels like there’s active heating on with the blowing fans on this line.
Genuinely surprised it’s not the central line – at least the victoria line travels fast enough that you get some airflow going through the carriages (even it it’s hot, stale air).
I was discussing this with a friend recently. He said it’s due to the type of soil surrounding the tunnels – it’s mostly clay. Apparently the clay has been absorbing heat from the trains all these years but is now reaching its maximum heat capacity (and can’t absorb anymore). So, now all the heat from the line is reflected back into the tunnels and trains, as opposed to being absorbed by the surrounding earth. Additionally, because of the depth, the tunnels on the Victoria line are the smallest – so there’s not enough room for bigger trains with A/C. The line could be unusably hot within years, apparently. There are a few articles detailing this phenomenon as well.
Edit: On why the tunnels are small. Not due to the age, but that the line is a deep-level tube.
It’s extremely hot and humid in the winter months. I try to avoid it during the summer as it can be suffocatingly in the heat.
It’s crazy how hotter it got in the last 3-5 years.
As long as fixing it is not impossible, there should at least a plan with estimations on how to do it and how much it’d cost. Otherwise in the next 3-5 it’ll be unusable.
That’s just the platforms, I’d love to know what the carriages are like during rush-hour. Poor fellow in front of me was *dripping*.
You wouldn’t treat cattle like that.
Except we are the cattle…
“Fifteen people complained about the Tube being too cold”.
I would LOVE to feel cold on the tube.
Victoria 6 degrees increase in a decade – so in 2034 average temps of 35 degrees – yeah you ain’t getting people to journey on it by then. That’s a joke.
Do they also track train temps, or just the station temps? Because in my experience the trains are always hotter than the stations. The movement of trains in the tunnels also helps cool stations acting like a set of bellows, while the trains can be stifling hot because of a lack of ventilation.
Also the data would have been much more useful plotted over the year also showing the surface temps. Saying avg 30C over the year is pretty meaningless, knowing the surface temp could have dipped below 0C in winter and gone +40C a couple summers ago.
The tube is consistently hotter than the surface, so in winter with snow on the ground it could easily be 20-25C underground, while in summer with the surface at 30C, the tubes will be a sweat box nearing 40C.
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Shocked it wasn’t central tbh.
Shocking how much the Vicky line’s temperature has shot up over the last 10 years. Afraid of what it’s going to be in another 10
Hottest and loudest
6 degrees c increase in a decade. By 2034 it’ll be 34 degrees and likely more with a warning climate. Needs serious intervention
This really needs sorting out now. People keep saying “it’s not an easy fix blah blah blah” but so what? Why does something have to be easy?! Their job is to fix it, get rid of them if they can’t do it.
Always feels like there’s active heating on with the blowing fans on this line.
Genuinely surprised it’s not the central line – at least the victoria line travels fast enough that you get some airflow going through the carriages (even it it’s hot, stale air).
I was discussing this with a friend recently. He said it’s due to the type of soil surrounding the tunnels – it’s mostly clay. Apparently the clay has been absorbing heat from the trains all these years but is now reaching its maximum heat capacity (and can’t absorb anymore). So, now all the heat from the line is reflected back into the tunnels and trains, as opposed to being absorbed by the surrounding earth. Additionally, because of the depth, the tunnels on the Victoria line are the smallest – so there’s not enough room for bigger trains with A/C. The line could be unusably hot within years, apparently. There are a few articles detailing this phenomenon as well.
Edit: On why the tunnels are small. Not due to the age, but that the line is a deep-level tube.
It’s extremely hot and humid in the winter months. I try to avoid it during the summer as it can be suffocatingly in the heat.
It’s crazy how hotter it got in the last 3-5 years.
As long as fixing it is not impossible, there should at least a plan with estimations on how to do it and how much it’d cost. Otherwise in the next 3-5 it’ll be unusable.
That’s just the platforms, I’d love to know what the carriages are like during rush-hour. Poor fellow in front of me was *dripping*.
You wouldn’t treat cattle like that.
Except we are the cattle…
“Fifteen people complained about the Tube being too cold”.
I would LOVE to feel cold on the tube.
Victoria 6 degrees increase in a decade – so in 2034 average temps of 35 degrees – yeah you ain’t getting people to journey on it by then. That’s a joke.
Do they also track train temps, or just the station temps? Because in my experience the trains are always hotter than the stations. The movement of trains in the tunnels also helps cool stations acting like a set of bellows, while the trains can be stifling hot because of a lack of ventilation.
Also the data would have been much more useful plotted over the year also showing the surface temps. Saying avg 30C over the year is pretty meaningless, knowing the surface temp could have dipped below 0C in winter and gone +40C a couple summers ago.
The tube is consistently hotter than the surface, so in winter with snow on the ground it could easily be 20-25C underground, while in summer with the surface at 30C, the tubes will be a sweat box nearing 40C.