The Cairns Post

Train commuters get down to basics

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HUNDREDS of people have stripped off their trousers to take a half-naked trip on the London Undergroun­d.

Crowds met outside the National Gallery in the city’s Trafalgar Square for the 10th annual No Trousers Tube Ride before heading undergroun­d where they boarded trains on different Tube lines across the capital.

More than 100 people piled on to the Piccadilly Line, where they struggled to remove their trousers due to the large crowds.

Regular Sunday passengers were left bewildered as men and women sat in their brightly-coloured underwear talking or reading, or taking pictures of each other.

After changing to the Jubilee Line at Green Park, the group got off at Canary Wharf to do some aerobics on the platform before jumping on another train.

The event is part of the worldwide No Pants Subway Ride, which began in New York in 2002 and has since spread to over 60 cities around the globe including Tokyo, Jerusalem and Moscow.

 ?? Picture: AFP ?? BARE MINIMUM: Passengers read while riding a Jubilee Line train as they take part in the annual 'No Trousers On The Tube Day' on the London Undergroun­d.
Picture: AFP BARE MINIMUM: Passengers read while riding a Jubilee Line train as they take part in the annual 'No Trousers On The Tube Day' on the London Undergroun­d.

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