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Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Cars & Transportation: Rail: “Question: Are subway trains heated / have air conditioning?” plus 2 more

Cars & Transportation: Rail: “Question: Are subway trains heated / have air conditioning?” plus 2 more


Question: Are subway trains heated / have air conditioning?

Posted: 22 Oct 2014 12:17 PM PDT

Newer London Underground trains have air conditioning. They all have heating but it is switched off while the trains are in the tunnels to prevent unnecessary strain on the power supply

Question: What is the best position to place yourself on a train track to cause immediate death?

Posted: 22 Oct 2014 12:06 PM PDT

Somewhere that the train driver does not have to SEE YOU and live with your act for the rest of his life.

There is no Guarantee you will be killed immediately.

Question: How to write / describe being on a subway train?

Posted: 22 Oct 2014 12:10 AM PDT

The first thing you should learn about writing is that you can not describe what you have not experienced.
Only when you are a very experienced writer you can do it second hand and still convince your readers.

For now the best thing to do is to find a subway train and experience what it is like. Even then you do face a challenge as writing real life experiences so someone else can feel them as well is not as easy as you might think.

Second best is to get many descriptions of subway and train travels and filter out what you need.
A second hand view.

My solution would be to skip the typical subway train things, which you do not know about as you have not been there, but concentrate on something you can write about.
Let him/her wake up and see a person, (or many of them but just focus on one) and 'ignore' the train facts until either person gets off. That way readers will just fill in the sounds and smells from their own memory or do without if they do not know subways either.
But fill in that gap with something he is seeing, (or hearing or reading or doing) that makes readers forget there is a gap.

By the way, different subway trains and certainly different subway systems do sound and smell different.

Many times in trains, subway as well as above ground. And I am an aspiring writer with enough sense not to give up the day job.

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