Thursday 09 July 2026 5:18 am  |  Updated:  Wednesday 08 July 2026 12:28 pm

No air conditioning on the Tube? Blame Sadiq Khan

By: James Ford

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You could be riding in new, air conditioned trains on the Piccadilly Line and DLR but City Hall has botched their introduction. James Ford is getting hot under the collar...

Do you find the tube to be oppressively hot in the summer and unbearable in a heatwave? Ever found yourself sweating on the Central Line? Or perspiring on the Piccadilly line? Are you usually melting at Morden? Ever wished you had a fan at Farringdon, a bottle of water at Bank or were shirtless at St Paul’s? 

Chances are you have replied yes to one or more of these questions, especially in the past few weeks. Currently just 40 per cent of the tube network have airconditioned trains (192 out of 620 trains in fact), and none of them are on the deeper lines which suffer the most from the heat. That means there is no aircon on the Central, Jubilee, Bakerloo, Piccadilly, Northern, Victoria, and Waterloo & City lines. The Central Line is officially the hottest, reaching 39.4℃ during the peak of the recent heatwave.........

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