"Colin McKenzie" wrote in message
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3518+3227 wrote:
At Marylebone, in the morning peak, most passengers will be going
down rather than up, therefore - with an up escalator service still
having to be maintained - all these passengers will have to use
the fixed staircase. Presumably it is considered that this volume
of passengers using a narrow staircase would be unsafe.

Especially as at Marylebone passengers will reach the tube station in
lumps rather than evenly spaced - it's a main line terminus with rather
infrequent trains.

This may not apply at Moorgate because more of the passengers get off
before the terminus.

And I for one will mourn the passing of the wooden escalator.

Given that wooden escalators contributed to the severity of the Kings Cross
fire which killed 31 people, that's a particularly insensitive and
thoughtless comment IMHO.
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Richard J.
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