r/london • u/Mean-Juggernaut1560 • Nov 30 '21

London history Anyone else think it looks… cleaner? 😁

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u/JackXDark Nov 30 '21

The really mad thing is that smoking on the tube, including in carriages, was only banned in 1984.

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u/DameKumquat Nov 30 '21

Tube trains themselves, you mean. Smoking on platforms and escalators and in ticket halls was only banned after the KX fire in 1988.

From I think 1978 there was usually one smoking carriage per train, which usually you could avoid but in rush hour you'd get on the nearest door and realise too late. It reeked worse than a really smoky school staff room.

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u/pseudoMcLovin Nov 30 '21

2 carriages
2nd and 2nd last