British Trains Struggle To Cope With Record-Breaking Heat Wave



Britain’s Met Office has issued its first ever “extreme heat” warning as temperatures could soar to 104F across parts of the country. The potentially record-breaking temperatures are threatening the country’s rail system, which “it wasn’t built to cope with,” a U.K. minister said.

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24 comments

  1. Just another day here in Delhi

  2. Well all I can say is welcome to the same kind of conditions that California , Texas , Georgia Florida, and the Midwest for example deal with every summer

  3. I came here to see the guy feeding him water 😐

  4. Poor people, can't handle the heat😡
    I'm in Texas and it's 105.

  5. I've seen a lot of comparisons of Britain to the US, some people saying it's a dryer heat in AZ etc. I'm British and have visited the Dominican Republic. It was only 30C but the humidity was so high it was a serious shock, like going into a steam room with a hair dryer blasting in your face!

    A lot of people here also forget that because the UK is higher up the sun stays out for a lot longer. It doesn't get properly dark until 11-ish in Southern Britain, and doesn't get fully dark in the nights in Scotland in the summer. The heat and the long days of sun do have an impact.

  6. Piece of advice speaking as a Londoner, don't use the proper underground trains in the summer and be careful to open windows and sit in the shade on a bus.

  7. your first ever?! try to live in the UAE! and u will see how construction workers work under the heat of the sun and everything is normal! british people are spoiled and feeling so entitled! shame!

  8. Get A/C. Don’t use if dont need. But just get it. I live in California whole my life and used to heats and know what to do. Visited other family in Oregon when it was heatwaves that time and it was only 95. Everyone complaining and dying of heats when I was just outside enjoying Oregon and hiking. Fishing no problem. They thought I was crazy. No, I’m used to it. And drink lot water. Also other tip. Eat more spicy foods as you can. Few times a week. It’ll helps your body to cool off. It’s strange but that how we do it. Notice when you eat spicy food and your sinus immediately clear up and you feel coldness in it. Same concept to body. 👍

  9. The Liberal World Order is once again trying to pass their agenda with delusions of Fake Global Warning

  10. Yet another crisis to blame on climate change I'm sure

  11. Im sure the Queen is quite worried about it & doing something right now to help the useless eaters, I mean citizens.

  12. Wow Queen, be a human for once, give those guys a day off.

  13. I swear, the creators of mad max new exactly what was coming. Not aliens, not meteors, not robots that end up taking over humanity, not nuclear war…but this. Everything is drying up.

  14. Buy air conditioners, it’s horrible there because most places or hotels don’t have air.

  15. Clinton, Obama and Soros thought they would bankrupt Russia oust Putin and lap up the natural resources but Putin has bankrupted the EU and American economies.
    Between Putin and Trump they have undone 70 years of Socialist progress.
    It's a great time to be alive.
    I'm not tired of winning.

  16. I remember visiting Europe in the early 2000s. Over 30000 people died in a heatwave in France. No AC in apartments, just in Dept stores. Will need to change.

  17. muh climate change. everyone needs to destroy their petrol vehicles and buy evs, eat bugs, and live in stick built shacks… because… climate change..

  18. Fear mongering and gas lighting. NBC does it so well. Genesis 8:22, "While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Joe Biden, NBC and other non-believers are teaching something different. God said otherwise and I believe God, not NBC.

  19. Keep driving your pick up trucks and leaving the lights on. Youre doing great

  20. This is a message to Europe. This isn't a once-in-a-century event. This is probably going to happen again in 2-3 years. Europe can either wait for the next heat wave after this one ends or adapt by installing air conditioning units in public infrastructure and so on.

  21. Didn't know trains could feel the heat