"Mark Brader" wrote in message
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Annabel Smyth:
What happened to those [Finsbury Park] lifts...?

Roland Perry:
Taken out a very long time ago ...

"Kev":
They were the last hydraulic lifts on the system.

(I'd better qualify that - the last 'proper'
hydraulic lifts, as opposed to some modern
electro-hydraulic installations on the DLR).

Okay, what's the distinction here?

There used to be hydraulic mains in London supplying pressurised water all
over the city for the operation of lifts (and perhaps other machinery). In
an electro-hydraulic lift, the electrical power coming into the building
would be used to pressurise water on site.

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