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smell on the tube...

Finn

Asked by Finn 7 months ago for 1 kudos
Last active 5 months ago 6 responses

I’ve just come back to London after many years. The heat on the tube keeps me on the slow overground, but that smell…. ....kind of like it mostly because it’s so bizarre that in the midst of it everyone isn’t going “phew!” Used to it I guess. Are there any places the tube smells good? What’s the worst thing you’ve smelt on the tube? How would you describe THAT smell?

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6 responses

Finn

not a coward…just slow to fiqure out how to post a photo…just done…

Posted 7 months ago by Finn

willsterpremium

What smell?

Posted 7 months ago by willster

Oslaf

When I change in the mornings from the Victoria to the Central line.. as soon as I get on the Westbound platform of the Central, it smells as if there is a pile of decomposing rats somewhere in the tunnel.. weirdly, you can only smell it in the mornings, before it gets too crowded, I’d say before 7am. It’s really horrible.

Posted 5 months ago by Oslaf

CasperCCC

I quite like the general Tube smell. Sort of oily, sooty, grubby, all held together with sweat and germs. It smells of London. Comforting, in a funny kind of way.

What I don’t like is the smell of the Tesco just around the corner from where I work. Every single lunchtime there’s a rank, rank smell that’s a mixture of rotting meat, old biscuits and stale feet. Have no idea what it could be.

Posted 5 months ago by CasperCCC

BraveNewMaldenpremium

I hate walking past any branches of Lush or Dunkin’ Doughnuts.

On the Underground, that awful nose-covering smell at Waterloo is still there, I presume.

Posted 5 months ago by BraveNewMalden

SpudSonic

There used to be a rotten egg smell on the East London line at Wapping, just before the Brunel tunnel that goes under the Thames.

A lot of the black grime on the tube is iron dust shaved off the rails by train wheels. Not sure if that has a smell of its own or not.

Posted 5 months ago by SpudSonic