In Sydney's old train, commuters' living conditions can be described as abominable. In hot weather, without air conditioning in the car, the temperature can even reach 50 degrees!
Australian media investigators have been tested in these 50-year-old carriages, which should have been eliminated five years ago.
Just last week, with a thermal camera, reporters boarded a train from Western Sydney to Central Station, heading outward to Campbeltown.
At Liverpool station, they carried thermometers indicating that the temperature in the car had reached 41 degrees.
At 03:20 on the test day, on the way from Schofields to Campbeltown, the temperature in the car was even 50 degrees!
04:27, Central stops at Leumeah Station, after the train to Campbeltown. The temperature inside the car is 51 degrees Celsius!
Mechaela Feild, 19, rides from Campbeltown to Westmead. every weekday. 'you never know when you're going to suffer, 'she said.' it's really hard to get on a train like this at this temperature.
"when you walk into the train station from 30 to 40 degrees, you're already sweating, and you think you might feel a little cool in the car. But there is no air conditioning in the train, and you have to put up with it all the way to work. "
Sydney Train's official website notes that the 24 S-Set train has eight carriages per train and runs only on Olympic Park sprint line.
But a Sydney train spokesman said the models would also be on T2 Airport, Inner West Line and T3 Bankstown Lines, and they would soon become 100% air-conditioned.
"at present, 97% of our train fleet has air conditioning."
But a passenger named Heather Lage says he has been commuting to and from work on the train for more than 20 years and has never been on an air-conditioned train.
The spokesman also said 24 new Waratah trains would be operational in 2018 as part of a 1.5 billion-dollar upgrade.