On Mar 27, 10:15*am, Roland Perry wrote:
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18:59:34 on Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Mizter T remarked:

http://www.heathrowairport.com/asset...20Files/T5_Inf...

The 'Vital Statistics' pages do contain some useful hard facts

* * * * "The TTS station is underground, and passengers travelling from
* * * * Terminal 5B descend to the station via the longest open design
* * * * escalator in Europe. It will take 90 seconds to travel on the
* * * * escalator which has a vertical rise of 21.75 metres.

Does that beat the escalator at Angel Tube station? What's an "open
design" escalator, anyway; and where is the presumably longer "not open
design" escalator somewhere else in Europe?

I presume they mean it's not in a closed shaft, like Angel's is - this
one is in a very large atrium, with open space above and below.

There's a photo at http://flickr.com/photos/22819720@N02/2307578958/

- martin