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Old March 27th 08, 08:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Heathrow's new Terminal 5 opens today


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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18:59:34 on Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Mizter T remarked:
http://www.heathrowairport.com/asset...fo_packnew.pdf


The 'Vital Statistics' pages do contain some useful hard facts


"The TTS station is underground, and passengers travelling from
Terminal 5B descend to the station via the longest open design
escalator in Europe. It will take 90 seconds to travel on the
escalator which has a vertical rise of 21.75 metres.

Does that beat the escalator at Angel Tube station? What's an "open
design" escalator, anyway; and where is the presumably longer "not open
design" escalator somewhere else in Europe?
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Do you mean Western Europe? Because the escalators on the Budapest metro are
quite deep.