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Commuters walk past a Magnum ad at King’s Cross Station in London on March 17.
PHOTO: JENNY GROSS/NYTIMES
LONDON – London’s public transit workers have seen (and smelled) almost everything, and they have a system. Code one is blood. Two is urine. Three is vomit.
“All kinds of smells,” one employee at the King’s Cross stop on the London Underground said. “A lot happens in this station.”


