It’s going to be hotter on the tube than the legal temperature for transporting cattle

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As Britain basks in a heat-wave, it’s been revealed that the temperatures on some tube trains are likely to exceed the legal limit for transporting cattle.

Temperatures are set to peak at 33 degrees in London – and commuters on the Central Line will find their journeys to be the most testing, after it was named as the hottest route on the Underground.

That’s because it’s somewhat of an elderly stalwart at 115 years old – and it’s extremely hard to install air conditioning because of this, alongside the depth of the route.

And those sweltering 33 degree temperatures are higher than the 30 degree limit for the transportation of cattle, according to EU rules.

If farmers are found to be transporting their cows in a truck that’s below 5 degrees or above 30 – they could find themselves in hot water.

As for the commuters though, they’ll have to suffer – while slowly realising that a sticky unbearable commute is apparently what their expensive travelcard has to offer.

In a statement, David Waboso, Capital Programmes Director at London Underground, said: ‘As part of our plans to improve every single journey we are making real headway towards cooling the Tube’.

‘However, there is still work to do. Cooling the deeper lines of the Tube is a big engineering challenge, but we’re making significant steps forward for the next generation of Tube trains on the Piccadilly line, we will include a requirement for air conditioning.’

It is hoped that new improvement plans will see air-conditioned trains forming 40 percent of the London Underground fleet by 2016.

But until then, a sweaty and sticky commute is guaranteed on the Central Line.