If you happen to pass through Belsize Park, Chalk Farm or Mornington Crescent while heading into Central London on the Northern Line you will notice a Blue tint to the platform lighting!
This is London Underground trying to play with peoples minds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is a science associated with this but promise you wont laugh (I broke that particular promise when I was told)! You see there is an unproven theory that the mind recognises colours as being claming (that is why Metropolitan Line train cabs are painted light blue apparently) so by the same token does the mind view colours as hot and cold?
London's tube system is hot on the coldest of days and they have a long term Tunnel cooling Project, which involves boring new vent shafts and various other schemes. They are also looking at some measures in the interim period and this is one of them.
So to try out this theory, special fluorescent lamps have been installed at the three platforms mentioned above. The idea being that blue is a cold colour so should make people standing in the blue light feel cooler as opposed to the orange / white light that normal tubes throw out.
If you happen to be on the platforms then you may be accosted by someone doing a survey and they will ask you how warm you feel while standing on both platforms.
Having loitered on both platforms myself last week at Belsize Park, I can honestly say that it seems to make no difference whatsoever!!!!!!!
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And as a Northern Line Driver can I say the light is incredibly distracting? Especially when approaching Chalk Farm on the south.
Another huge waste of money by LU....
Those lights are only going to give people headaches.
Edit to top comment - I meant Belsize!
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