On 1 July, 19:07, Mizter T wrote:

I'm answering a question you haven't quite answered! Obviously the
crew can just go down the staircase - however, as I intimate, it's the
oodles of kit that's the issue!

Still, perhaps Warner Bros might want to shoot some scenes for the
forthcoming money-is-no-object Harry Potter feature films down there,
with LU wangling a free lift replacement out of them...

I've seen pictures of film people carrying sections of camera track
down the stairs. How you get something like a camera dolly or a HMI
lamp ballast down there I don't know. The lift cars which were in use
at the time of the closure were fixed in position in the shaft; I
think the machinary is still in place. Aren't there two other shafts
which never had lifts installed in them? Maybe for a large shoot with
lots of equipment they could rig up a builders hoist in one of those.
Or maybe they only use it for small shoots with limited equipment, and
they do carry it all down the stairs.