crusty_bint wrote:And why does it smell so bad there? Is there a main sewer line there or something?
Crusty, if the smell you're referring to is what I think it is, it is caused by a fungus growing inside the tunnel. This smell was characteristic of the old [pre-modernisation] subway, so much so that it became part of Glasgow folklore. The modernisation process was supposed to have got rid of it, but more than 25 years on the fungus is probably re-asserting itself in environmental conditions favourable to it. Recently I've quite often caught a faint whiff of the smell while standing on station platforms waiting for a subway train.