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I was just wondering if by any chance there happen to be any stations on the LU network nowadays which are still using the old wooden escalators? If so, I'll have to pay that station a visit for nostalgic reasons. Those metal ones just aren't the same really.

Greenford has a wooden escalator.

i thought that all had gone after the Fennal report into the Kings Cross fire.

Whats said and whats done are to totally diffeent playing fields

i think you find the tops are wooden but the structure is steel

But Greenford isn't underground so might not be covered

Marylebone used to have a wooden escalator, not sure if its still there now, haven't been they for over 2 years.

Greenford was apparently exempt because it is an above ground station and so regulations regarding that aspect of fire safety are relaxed.

Marlybone yes i think

southcoasttrains wrote:Marylebone used to have a wooden escalator, not sure if its still there now, haven't been they for over 2 years.

Not any more I was there just last week, it's a steel one now.

The stations on the Hainault Branch of the Central Line beyond Leytonstone had wooden escalators recently, though it's been a while since I've been that way.

Can't think of the name of them now as I used to live up the Epping branch so I only ever went that way by mistake!

Wanstead might still do, Gants Hill has been refurbished recently and Redbridge is shallow enough not to need one

(Has family in Wanstead)