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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Albert Toth

London’s hottest Tube lines revealed as capital bakes in record-breaking heatwave

Temperatures on the London Underground rail network reached almost 40C on Wednesday as the day was officially declared the hottest in June on record.

A provisional outdoor high of 36.1C was recorded at Gosport in Hampshire, beating the previous top temperature of 35.6C set in 1976, the Met Office said as the record was broken four times in a day.

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