My journey to work involves a short 20 minute ride on the northern and Victoria lines. Generally in the office 2-3 days a week. This is the end result of c.2 months of using this filter whilst waiting on the platform and in the carriage.

No more black bogies for me!

by powderedtoastman44

43 comments

  3. I feel terrible for the TFL staff that have to be down there for their whole shift.

  4. I’m glad my commute is between two outdoor stations! I only need to go in the deep section on Sundays for some music lessons I go to.

  5. I like a healthy coating of pollution on my lungs. It builds character.

  6. Depends on the particle size if it’s actually bad. (Edit: but yes it’s probably bad)

  7. As all the trains are electric where’s all the dirt coming from ?

  8. Are those holes for your nostrils or just filters the same colour as the carpet?!

  10. Can you share the link to the filter mask you use? Seeing this, think I need to start using one that isn’t cotton or fabric…

  11. Brake dust and soot. Horrible, and very dangerous for people with breathing problems.

  12. Shouldn’t the mask filter this stuff out *before* it reaches the inside of the mask? Otherwise you’re just breathing it inside the mask?

  13. Do you only put the mask on when you enter the station and get on the platform? Or do you wear it outside also?

  14. So sing us a song you’re the filter man,

    Sing us a song with gleeee,

    Cos you’re down in the tube with a face mask on,

    And there’s no more black bogies for meeee!

  15. Aren’t you supposed to change it before than two months?

  16. Aren’t you supposed to change it before than two months?

  18. The Piccadilly line is absolutely filthy. Had to use it to go to a hotel and I spent half my evening getting that muck out of my nose!

  19. Most of that like to be brake dust or pantograph carbon…. neither is good for you… I hat the tube environment love the things in London but I prefer above ground for some reason…

  20. How come my clothes don’t look like that after a journey on the tube?

  21. Someone told me 30 mins on the tube is equivalent to smoking two cigarettes

  22. Thanks for posting this!
    What type of finger is that? FP2? FP3v

  23. The particulate readings in the tube system for pm2.5 are in the hundreds.

    The WHO safe limit is currently set at 5

  24. What’s a good mask to wear on the tube?? I’ve just been using my covid N-95 and ik they’re not suited to pollution.

    Please suggest!

  25. Can’t remember where I read it but, apparently 20mins on the northern line is the equivalent of smoking a cigarette.

  28. It’s mad especially given then the underground is all electric

  29. I use to work on the underground and anything that came out of my nose was black, I was told most of it is human skin flakes though (that was back in 2008 mind you)

  30. Is there any result on the actual health impacts from the air pollution exposure in the tube?

    I know the filter looks bad, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. Many of the pollutants that are bad for us are invisible.

  32. This is fucking disgusting. I’m seriously shocked. Never knew it was that bad and we’re breathing it in. I need to start wearing one.

  33. When I stand by the window for a few stops and I blow my nose after it’s literally BLACK

  34. ~~Pretty sure 90% of this is from touching the mask with dirty fingers…~~

    I stand corrected!

  35. I’ve moved to London from Istanbul 3 years ago. Istanbul’s underground coverage can’t be compared to London and the modern one opened in 1989 (not mentioning historical one). Still the situation of London’a underground is horrible. Old, dirty, shortages, delays, maintenance always. Designed for Hobbits and not even mentioning the cost. I still don’t understand how people accept this

  36. Wife was wearing a mask and a guy walked to her, coughed next to her and then asked why she was wearing a mask.
    He walked off quietly when she replied that she was pregnant.

    My point is, some twats find it amusing and/or will think it’s a political statement about covid somehow.

  37. Live in Scotland but used to travel south regularly for work. Do not miss having ‘black bogies’ that resulted from any of the London trips. Sometimes envy the infrastructure a big city life affords, but couldn’t ever see me swapping the clean, fresh air we are blessed with up here.

  38. Wanna laugh? I went to work on the tracks, the subbie said we would be sweeping the tunnels. I asked for a mask and was told to leave. LUL used asbestos for brake linings til 2000.

  39. I don’t live in London but visit frequently, I’m a paramedic and we had a chap who was a ventilation engineer who was working in London during the week as apparently the pollution in, on and around the tube is off the scale.

  41. I’m SHOCKED more people aren’t wearing masks of some kind of the tube. The politicization after Covid really screwed us all. The air down their is nasty man I still wear mine.

  42. Going to pretend I didn’t see this and keep scrolling (read every comment)

  43. Always hated the smell down there, turns out I was right huh

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