In article , Richard J.
writes
More seriously, wasn't this escalator new when the station was rebuilt
only a few years ago?

Yes, though it's a bit more than a few years now; the new platform
opened in October 1992.

Is it one of the very long ones (the longest on
the Underground in fact)?

The upper flight at Angel is the longest on LU. At one point it was
claimed to be the longest in Western Europe.

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