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The soaring temperatures on the London Tube more than the summer months have been a difficulty for some years now. A London Underground group has attempted to come up with some engineering solutions to the difficulty by developing a groundwater cooling program. The trial, which begins this summer time, aims to make it cooler for passengers on platforms and will be tested at Victoria station which is so deep that it is properly below water and pumps out 35 litres (eight gallons) a second, to stop it coming via the walls. The concept of the new system is to push the water via a network of pipes into heat exchange units on the platforms, which will suck in warm air and pump out cooler air. The heat could be employed to energy properties and offices above and this way the temperature will be brought down. But this is only a trial to be tested this year and it is far from being put into perform as well as new trains with air cooling systems that are promised for Circle, District, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan lines. seo service Meanwhile the temperatures in the deepest tunnels, reach 30C (86F) in summer time. These adjustments might impact the London Tube in a drastic way. Some of the Tube lines may be closed particularly on the hot summer time days. London Underground assures that there are no plans to close any Tube Lines during the summer time but in the future years it may well get to the point "exactly where the underground will grow to be literally intolerable and you could face the prospect of loss of life" as Mr Livingstone from LU advised. About 1,000 London Tube passengers were trapped for virtually two hours when 3 trains had been held up in a tunnel. The Central Line closed following signal failures stopped the trains in between Marble Arch and Lancaster Gate. The trains have been evacuated and three men and women had been treated for the effects of heat.