On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:46:51 +0100 someone who may be Edward Cowling
London UK wrote this:-

We're all getting too damn soft and the media don't help. When I was
a kid we just called it hot weather and got on with it. Now there are
endless announcements to carry water and if you believe the news
we're all about to suffer heat stroke.

As others have said, this is the fashion for "mineral" water.
Personally if I want water I turn on the tap and water comes out. I
did this when I lived in London too.

As for shutting down some lines, that would simply increase the
temperature in the tunnels. The trains are much of the ventilation
system and they do a reasonable job of keeping the tunnels
reasonably cool.

As for high temperatures in tunnels when the trains stop running, a
member of my family gave up her job in a florist in Covent Garden
(this would probably have been in the late 1950s) after being caught
in a few breakdowns on peak hour trains. People probably whined less
then.


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David Hansen, Edinburgh
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