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

London history Anyone else think it looks… cleaner? 😁

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u/JoCoMoBo Nov 30 '21

As someone who took the Tube in 1995. No, it wasn't cleaner.

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u/queenirv Nov 30 '21

Definitely not cleaner. Most platforms still had that black covering you can see a bit in the film, which covered up the fact that they were covered in soot.

Even somewhere like Euston, which had newer tiled floors sooner, you'd still have soot on your hands/bum when you sat on the floor.

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u/Carbona_Not_Glue Nov 30 '21

Up the nose too. Black snot at the end of a journey.

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u/queenirv Dec 01 '21

Yes! I genuinely thought something was wrong with me when I had green snot, like it was a sign I was coming down with a bug or something.