Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
London Transport (uk.transport.london) Discussion of all forms of transport in London. |
Reply |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Tottenham Court Road escalators, December 2003.
"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. 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. I think it would be better if LU just closed a station completely for a month and did all the escalators there in one big lot rather than causing years of disruption. Peter Smyth |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Tottenham Court Road escalators, December 2003.
"Peter Smyth" wrote in message ... I think it would be better if LU just closed a station completely for a month and did all the escalators there in one big lot rather than causing years of disruption. At the smaller, less busy, stations, I'd agree. However, closures of stations such as Liverpool Street, Victoria, Euston and Bank would affect too many people and affect the stations adjacent too much. |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Tottenham Court Road Station... there is already evidence ofCrossrail 2 | London Transport | |||
Tottenham Court Road new ticket hall | London Transport | |||
Northern line back at Tottenham Court Road | London Transport | |||
Earl's Court escalators | London Transport | |||
Tottenham Court Road modernisation | London Transport |