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Pathracer
@mespilus
A long time ago, on a trip to new York,
I took mespilus jr. to the New York Subway museum
housed in a dis-used subway station in Brooklyn.
One of the carriages they had on display, dating back to the 1920's, as far as I can remember,
had a notable feature of a couple of head-height wooden slats at both sides of each end.
Behind the slats was a UV-lamp. They had been installed to reduce the transmission of airborne diseases, in retrospect, presumably to reduce recurrences of 'Spanish' flu.
Does anyone, @Pathracer know if such UV-lamps are still used in modern day TfL Tube carriages?