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Imagine that, in the past, the tube was steam engine powered.

If there are peoples who can handle heat deep there, they're the English.

But, yeah, it's stupidity.



Back then, the ground itself was cold and acted as a heat sink. People complained of the cold in the underground. A century+ of trains and passengers has warmed the clay, so the stations heat up.


Only for of the current lines, those using larger trains and shallower tunnels.

The "tube" (with the circular tubelike tunnels) used electric from the start.




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