Martin Underwood wrote:
"Billy Bollock Chops" wrote in
message news:1112626535.8c2e56f63c9b0b270e301e7f88638775@t eranews...
At Angel station where an escalator is being replaced there is a
sign saying "This escalator has travelled to the moon and back".
Is this true? Why did they take an escalator to the moon?

Some of the craters on the moon are very deep. When you're wearing
a space suit, it's a lot easier to use the escalator (remebering to
stand on the right!) than to climb up the emergency steps cut in
the side of the crater. Some older craters have lifts, but these
are gradually being replaced by escalators. ;-)

LOL! So why did they send this one back? (Answer: because it wasn't
reliable, apparently.)

More seriously, wasn't this escalator new when the station was rebuilt
only a few years ago? Is it one of the very long ones (the longest on
the Underground in fact)?
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Richard J.
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