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The Piccadilly line is known as The Tandoor in some parts of London, hopefully no more!

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It's got nothing on the Central Heating Line.

Red to reflect the fact that it is actually Hell.

Not 100% sure I get it, I assume because it gets very hot and I guess, has a strong odor?

It's really hot, you get plastered to the inside of the doors when it's busy and goes through Hounslow which is where the Indian population is in London. They named it that themselves and it caught on.

I lived in Hounslow for thirty years and got the Piccadilly Line daily. I never once heard it referred to as The Tandoor.

Living in zone 6 where the underground is overground, it’s more like Jalfrezi at this time of year.

Lived there for 20 years and heard it regularly. Did you have headphones on for 30 years on it? :)

No. And a quick search finds possibly one mention of it from 9 years ago on Reddit. It's not widely used.

> and goes through Hounslow which is where the Indian population is in London.

According to the 2021 Census, 656,272 Indian British live in London. Hounslow total population is 288,200, 21% of them Indian or around 60,000.

British Indians are the second largest ethnic group in Hounslow (after "white"), but there are almost 600,000 more living in other parts of London.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/census https://stats.hounslow.gov.uk/population/#/view-report/63aed...

It's like an oven, there's not much more to it than that.

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