I see that the escalators at Tottenham Court Road are under repair
again. This is the annual maintenance session, timed to be carried out
during the Christmas shopping period.

One of the three main escalators has been out of action for several
weeks already.

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In article , Gordon Joly
writes

I see that the escalators at Tottenham Court Road are under repair
again. This is the annual maintenance session, timed to be carried out
during the Christmas shopping period.

One of the three main escalators has been out of action for several
weeks already.

What happened the proposed massive restructuring promised for TCR
Station? I thought it was supposed to start in 2001-2.

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(Gordon Joly) wrote in message ...
I see that the escalators at Tottenham Court Road are under repair
again. This is the annual maintenance session, timed to be carried out
during the Christmas shopping period.

One of the three main escalators has been out of action for several
weeks already.

If other stations repairs are anything to go by expect it to be out of action
for at least 6 months. After all , LU keeps reminding us via posters etc
how these things are so complex it takes longer to repair them than it does
NASA to ready a space shuttle for lauch and the repair time has nothing to do
with them putting no more than a couple of bone idle halfwits on the job who
never seem to be there whatever time of day you go past.

B2003

congokid wrote in message ...
In article , Gordon Joly
writes

I see that the escalators at Tottenham Court Road are under repair
again. This is the annual maintenance session, timed to be carried out
during the Christmas shopping period.

One of the three main escalators has been out of action for several
weeks already.

What happened the proposed massive restructuring promised for TCR
Station? I thought it was supposed to start in 2001-2.

the late signing of the PPP pushed everything back, and even though
the LUL people at the TCR exhibtion at Congress house a couple of
years back claimed the money had been ringfenced I wouldnt be
surprised if the whole scheme was being re-evaluated.

"Boltar" wrote in message
m...

If other stations repairs are anything to go by expect it to be out of
action
for at least 6 months. After all , LU keeps reminding us via posters etc
how these things are so complex it takes longer to repair them than it
does
NASA to ready a space shuttle for lauch and the repair time has nothing to
do
with them putting no more than a couple of bone idle halfwits on the job
who
never seem to be there whatever time of day you go past.


Oooooh look, another expert on maintaining the underground!!

Pleased to say that all escalator work at Liverpool Street underground is
now complete for the forseeable future! Yippee!

Happy Xmas!

"Cast_Iron" wrote in message ...
"Boltar" wrote in message
m...

If other stations repairs are anything to go by expect it to be out of
action
for at least 6 months. After all , LU keeps reminding us via posters etc
how these things are so complex it takes longer to repair them than it
does
NASA to ready a space shuttle for lauch and the repair time has nothing to
do
with them putting no more than a couple of bone idle halfwits on the job
who
never seem to be there whatever time of day you go past.


Oooooh look, another expert on maintaining the underground!!

Given that I'm an engineer by trade whose worked on machinary thats a *teensy*
bit complex than the glorified conveyor belts known as escalators I think I
have half a clue about how complex they are to fix - ie not very. But in good
old british tradition we keep getting spin about how they're so damn complex
it takes months to fix and so bloody forth. Bull****. They're about as simple
a bit of machinary as you can find, the REAL reason is LU and their sub
contractors couldn't organise a proverbial ****-up with less than 6 months
advanced notice.

B2003

"Boltar" wrote in message
om...

Given that I'm an engineer by trade whose worked on machinary thats a
*teensy*
bit complex than the glorified conveyor belts known as escalators I think
I
have half a clue about how complex they are to fix - ie not very. But in
good
old british tradition we keep getting spin about how they're so damn
complex
it takes months to fix and so bloody forth. Bull****. They're about as
simple
a bit of machinary as you can find, the REAL reason is LU and their sub
contractors couldn't organise a proverbial ****-up with less than 6 months
advanced notice.

Oh that'd be fun, wouldn't it, having contactors working between a machine
they're taking apart and one running! Grinding machines might just play
havoc with the fire alarm systems, bringing in steps and metal panels would
sure please the insurers too!

"Robin Mayes" wrote in message ...
"Boltar" wrote in message
om...

Given that I'm an engineer by trade whose worked on machinary thats a
*teensy*
bit complex than the glorified conveyor belts known as escalators I think
I
have half a clue about how complex they are to fix - ie not very. But in
good
old british tradition we keep getting spin about how they're so damn
complex
it takes months to fix and so bloody forth. Bull****. They're about as
simple
a bit of machinary as you can find, the REAL reason is LU and their sub
contractors couldn't organise a proverbial ****-up with less than 6 months
advanced notice.

Oh that'd be fun, wouldn't it, having contactors working between a machine
they're taking apart and one running! Grinding machines might just play
havoc with the fire alarm systems, bringing in steps and metal panels would
sure please the insurers too!

Wtf are you talking about?

Take apart escalator and shipping to factory - 1 week approx.

Refurbish and test at factory, well lets be kind and say 3 weeks.

Ship back to staton, rebuild and test - 2 weeks.

Thats 6 weeks and I've been pretty generous with the time. What exactly do they
do with the other 4.5 months out of the 6 it generally takes themn to fix these
things??

B2003

On 16 Dec 2003 07:43:04 -0800, (Boltar) wrote:

Take apart escalator and shipping to factory - 1 week approx.

Refurbish and test at factory, well lets be kind and say 3 weeks.

Ship back to staton, rebuild and test - 2 weeks.

Thats 6 weeks and I've been pretty generous with the time. What exactly do they
do with the other 4.5 months out of the 6 it generally takes themn to fix these
things??

Right...Now schedule that for the 4 or so hours a night that you can
actually do the work (i.e. when the station is closed to passengers) and
add in the fact that escalators are custom built for each site,
nominally at a 30 degree angle though I believe there's one station on
the Northern Line with an incline of 23 and a bit degrees.

There's also the small matter of them needing to run for the best part
of 20 hours a day, 364 days a year and carry around 13000 passengers an
hour, unlike your average department store escalator.

HTH,

Barry

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