Martin Underwood wrote:
"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in
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Richard J. writes

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.

That's interesting. I've got a book [1] that says the Piccadilly
Line escalator at Leicester Square is the longest: 161 ft 6 in
(49.6 m) on slope / 80 ft 9 in (24.6 m) vertical rise, giving an
angle with the horizontal of arcsin(24.6/49.6) = 30 degrees.

When was the Angel escalator installed? Did it replace a lift? In
that case, maybe it was installed since my book was written.



[1] The London Underground Illustrated, Oliver Green, Ian Allen,
1987, ISBN 0-7110-1720-4

Angel station was rebuilt with escalators replacing lifts, and with two
separate platforms instead of one narrow island platform. As Clive said
in the part of his post that you snipped, the new station was completed
in October 1992. Escalators 4, 5 and 6 have a vertical rise of 27.39m
(89'10"), according to http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/vdetails.html
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Richard J.
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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:56:59 +0100, Billy Bollock Chops wrote:

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?

LUL.