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Daily Telegraph: 150 fascinating Tube facts
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Daily Telegraph: 150 fascinating Tube facts
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Daily Telegraph: 150 fascinating Tube facts
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:49:40 +0000, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:03:57 on Thu, 10 Jan 2013, David Walters remarked: If you have a desire to avoid lifts and escalators then a lot of the underground is off limits and it is very hard to plan a route with available information. There's a list of "Stair equipped" stations he http://www.geofftech.co.uk/tube/facts.html I'm not sure that is the list I'm looking for. That page includes "The follow stations only have escalator access to the platforms" but I think it doesn't list stations that have lift as well as escalator access. For example are there stairs, not locked behind emergency doors, at Canary Wharf? |
Daily Telegraph: 150 fascinating Tube facts
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013, David Walters remarked: If you have a desire to avoid lifts and escalators then a lot of the underground is off limits and it is very hard to plan a route with available information. There's a list of "Stair equipped" stations he http://www.geofftech.co.uk/tube/facts.html I'm not sure that is the list I'm looking for. I agree it lacks a certain Venn-foo. That page includes "The follow stations only have escalator access to the platforms" but I think it doesn't list stations that have lift as well as escalator access. I thought you wanted stair-only. If lifts are also acceptable that moves the goalposts a bit. For example are there stairs, not locked behind emergency doors, at Canary Wharf? Unlikely in any event. Stairs at deep stations tend to be either the spiral ones that are a legacy from when they only had lifts, or a fixed staircase in between two escalators. I'm not sure the guide acknowledges the latter properly, as I was fairly sure Marble Arch was one such station, bicbw. -- Roland Perry |
Daily Telegraph: 150 fascinating Tube facts
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:26:53 +0000, Roland Perry wrote:
I thought you wanted stair-only. I do, the geofftech page doesn't help much with that list. geofftech doesn't try to answer the "can you get to the platform only using stairs" question so it isn't very helpful. But I wonder if Waterloo should be listed as "platforms only reachable by escalator" since I don't think there enough fixed stairs or lifts? I'm not sure the guide acknowledges the latter properly, as I was fairly sure Marble Arch was one such station, bicbw. davros.org lists Marble Arch as having a fixed stairway. Which I assume is why it isn't on the geofftech page as accessible only be escalator. If I ever find myself with a free day I'll have to go and explore. I'd like to work out how Bank/Monument is bolted together if you avoid escalators. |
Daily Telegraph: 150 fascinating Tube facts
In message , at 14:31:45 on
Mon, 14 Jan 2013, David Walters remarked: davros.org lists Marble Arch as having a fixed stairway. That confirms my recollection (a stairway alongside one of the escalators, but not at the same angle so it's succession of half a dozen steps, landing etc) Which I assume is why it isn't on the geofftech page as accessible only be escalator. It's not on his list of "with steps", on the other hand neither is it on the list of "only escalators". As we can probably agree it doesn't have lifts, that's where the Venn-foo I mentioned comes in. Maybe the list you need is the inverse of the "only escalator" one (assuming lifts are either OK, or always accompanied by stairs). -- Roland Perry |
Daily Telegraph: 150 fascinating Tube facts
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Daily Telegraph: 150 fascinating Tube facts
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Daily Telegraph: 150 fascinating Tube facts
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:15:15 +0000, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:31:45 on Mon, 14 Jan 2013, David Walters remarked: davros.org lists Marble Arch as having a fixed stairway. That confirms my recollection (a stairway alongside one of the escalators, but not at the same angle so it's succession of half a dozen steps, landing etc) Is that a safety thing? If you slip you will stop at the next landing rather than tumbling all the way to the bottom. It seems rare to find very long unbroken flights of stairs. Maybe the list you need is the inverse of the "only escalator" one (assuming lifts are either OK, or always accompanied by stairs). Lifts aren't okay though, I want to be able to find routes that don't involve mechanical aids between the platform and street. |
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