Barry Salter wrote in message . ..
On 16 Dec 2003 07:43:04 -0800, (Boltar) wrote:

Take apart escalator and shipping to factory - 1 week approx.

Refurbish and test at factory, well lets be kind and say 3 weeks.

Ship back to staton, rebuild and test - 2 weeks.

Thats 6 weeks and I've been pretty generous with the time. What exactly do they
do with the other 4.5 months out of the 6 it generally takes themn to fix these
things??

Right...Now schedule that for the 4 or so hours a night that you can
actually do the work (i.e. when the station is closed to passengers) and
add in the fact that escalators are custom built for each site,
nominally at a 30 degree angle though I believe there's one station on
the Northern Line with an incline of 23 and a bit degrees.

So what? Will they get vertigo if it goes over a certain inclination? And
if they're limited to nights only why do they build these massive hordings
around them and (very occasionally admittedly , don't want to stop their
tea break) work during the day??


There's also the small matter of them needing to run for the best part
of 20 hours a day, 364 days a year and carry around 13000 passengers an
hour, unlike your average department store escalator.

*yawn* Big ****ing deal, heard this BS 101 times before. You could say the
same thing about the trains. But it doesn't take 6 months to fix one of them
when they go wrong does it?! And they're probably 100 times more complex.
Please stop spouting the party line , it gets very tedious.

B2003

"Boltar" wrote in message
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*yawn* Big ****ing deal, heard this BS 101 times before. You could say the
same thing about the trains. But it doesn't take 6 months to fix one of
them
when they go wrong does it?! And they're probably 100 times more complex.
Please stop spouting the party line , it gets very tedious.

Of course you couldn't compare the two! Trains don't get refurbished
anywhere near the general public was wander around, there's far easier
access and no fire alarms to contend with for starters. BTW, do you actually
know the turn round time for a refurbished train?