Night Tube tested with vegetable soup so you’re all good to vomit everywhere
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Your support makes all the difference.A healthy reminder that we’re essentially just organisms traversing a rock and spewing bio-emissions, the Night Tube has been tested for vomit resistance by staff using cans of vegetable soup.
“You literally just chuck it on the floor or over the seats, whatever you want to do with it,” was a sentence literally uttered during a presentation on the preparations for the Tube going 24-hour.
Utilising a positively Dadaist methodology, staff flung soup around carriages during the (not so) dry run last Friday night, the liquid food being about the best and most affordable substitute for real vomit they could think of, though it obviously lacks a sambuca frisson.
The clean-up test was one of many conducted ahead of Friday’s launch.
"Our detailed preparations included testing the train timetable, station security checks, being able to provide travel information in the event of service disruptions, being able to resolve ticketing queries effectively and a number of other situations,” a spokesperson said.
It’s unclear whether TfL also hired actors to flail around carriages screaming about Jesus, but I’m more than up for the job.
Look out for our report on the Night Tube’s first service on Saturday morning which will follow six solid hours of Tube riding.
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