HOT WEATHER IN LONDON
LONG QUEUES AT STATIONS
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. July 26. With the temperature everywhere above 80 degrees, Londoners to-day made new records in queueing. Fifty thousand people moved at the rate of half a mile an hour in a two-mile six-deep queue to catch trains from Victoria station to the coast and \ the Continental ferry services. Another 50,000 people left London from Waterloo, where during the night 3500 persons had slept on the platforms to win priority in the first trains early this morning. A queue at Paddington station was one mile long. At the Liverpool street station, the biggest crowds in the station’s history were reported. The Air Ministry predicted very hot weather.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25247, 28 July 1947, Page 3
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