London Underground's wooden escalators

XPTE · Post by **XPTE** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:25 pm

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.

allypally · Post by **allypally** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:27 pm

Greenford has a wooden escalator.

JSReeves86 · Post by **JSReeves86** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:28 pm

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

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:54 pm

Whats said and whats done are to totally diffeent playing fields

samuelbennett · Post by **samuelbennett** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:47 am

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

enotayokel · Post by **enotayokel** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:55 am

But Greenford isn't underground so might not be covered

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:40 am

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

allypally · Post by **allypally** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:30 pm

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

viperskil · Post by **viperskil** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:38 pm

Marlybone yes i think

MuzTrem · Post by **MuzTrem** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:48 pm

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.

arabiandisco · Post by **arabiandisco** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:10 pm

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!

enotayokel · Post by **enotayokel** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:19 pm

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

(Has family in Wanstead)