Tube users have been warned that they face the warmest summer ever on the underground network. With record numbers of passengers and record summer temperatures expected, the combination is set to cause users of the underground to suffer near unbearable conditions.

Weather forecasters have warned there is little prospect of a cooler than average season warned and given the record temperatures seen in London in the last two summers, expecting anything less this summer would be naïve.

Passenger numbers are all ready higher than expected, moving past a billion a year, well before predicted and tube bosses now say it will be “years” before the Underground system gets better and are telling passengers to prepare for the worst.

A senior Tube source said: “This summer, if the weather is as hot as some are predicting, it will be difficult down there.

“We are going to be completely honest with passengers. We have a strategy for mitigating the worst of the hot weather but it is going to take years to implement.”

Last summer the Evening Standard recorded “apparent temperatures” of 47C (117F) on the Tube.

The apparent temperature combines air temperature with humidity to find out the true effect of heat. Official European Union guidelines state that cattle should not be transported in temperatures above 27C (81F).

Last year Ken Livingstone warned of a “serious loss of life” if a train breaks down in a tunnel”.

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