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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I quite like underground transport, the stations can be absolutely stunning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That might be the higher-than-is-really-safe concentration of fumes doing the stunning...

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[–] rambaroo 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The London tube is full of soot from the days when they burned coal in there. It's the only subway I've been in where every time I walked out, there would be black tarry shit in my nose.

Also, the brakes for trains throw all kinds of dust into the air in subways

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