On Monday, 11 July 2016 22:49:15 UTC+1, wrote:
On 11.07.16 11:44, Recliner wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 01:27:04 -0700 (PDT), CJB
wrote:

Spiral escalators, Westfield shopping centre San Francisco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bahmYF0rKP4

Neat, not seen one of those!

Isn't there one in Hong Kong? ==== don't think so

More images he

https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=spiral+escalators

http://gizmodo.com/feast-your-eyes-o...tor-1691920542




http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/...d_station.html

"Passageway to the platform to surface shaft not in use - accessed from the southern end of the platforms.

"...you'll find that the abandoned staircase leads to the back of the lift shaft in current use. Interesting fact, the empty shaft isn't a lift shaft and never was one. It was built to accommodate an experimental spiral escalator, which broke down frequently and never really worked well enough to go into service, so the shaft for it was simply blocked off and never used. The escalator itself was removed sometime in the 1950's and as far as I know, is in storage for the LT museum, but no documentation on it's construction exists anymore, so it's basically in bits. Mitsubishi though, have manufactured the World's first spiral escalators and they're in a shopping mall in San Francisco, but these are simply curved, rather than a full spiral as the Holloway Road one was." "