Comments on: Tube Cooling: Boris Gets A New Voice

By: Tube Aircon - Out Of The Dark, Into The Light

Tube Aircon - Out Of The Dark, Into The Light — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:58:27 +0000

[...] of course, predicted all this back in June, for extra smug points. On the deep tube you can cool the stations but you [...]

By: Calvin Barrows

Calvin Barrows — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:58:51 +0000

Good idea Tom (Jun 30, 2008 at 11:37 pm) now someone is starting to think out of the box. Care to develop that thinking?

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:37:13 +0000

Thanks, very useful. It did occur to me that you can equip your trains to use air-con only outside the deep tunnels, but that doesn’t help most of the time, particularly on the Victoria, which is all underground. The other ideas sound very much like the kind of wizard boffinry Boris would enjoy, if he only did his research. If someone would just drop a word in his ear that his guys are ahead of him on this, that would be grand.

By: JPB

JPB — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:26:24 +0000

For in depth info on the efforts to cool the tube, see: http://thelondoneer.blogspot.com/search?q=cooling
and an alternative write up about the same talk http://www.freewebs.com/going_underground/Notes%5Ffrom%5FCooling%5Fthe%5FTube%5FTalk%5F%2D%5FtheLondoneer.blogspot.com.doc

By: BritSwedeGuy

BritSwedeGuy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:11:09 +0000

It only takes a visit to Stockholm or Oslo to remind me just how crummy London’s creaky old Tube system is:
Mobile phones work, emergency services have no problems with communications, the trains are quiet and don’t feel like they’re about to fly off the rail at any moment.
It all costs money though, and NuLabor (TM) are as investment allergic as the Tories.