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Escalators, many out of order

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I have just been looking at booking some tickets and pinned to the times are warnings about eascalators being out of action, St Pancras, Leicester, Ashford kent to name but 3.

Is there a Health and Safety purge on regarding escalators? TIA
 
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Birmingham New Street and Leeds have had ones out of service for a while.
 

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Reports on local social media that people got stuck in a broken down lift at Retford yesterday and that the fire service was involved in a rescue. I can't find out which lift it was nor has it appeared in any local news.
 

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Members please accept my apologies it should have been Lifts to which I was referring, a senior moment with escalators and elevators. :)
 

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Members please accept my apologies it should have been Lifts to which I was referring, a senior moment with escalators and elevators. :)
At St Pancras it is indeed escalator repair works (and not lifts) that are taking place. I can't remember if it's the escalators going up to the platforms or going down currently being worked on, but generally when one is out it's fine going up to the EMR platforms but more annoying coming down after a full service has just disgorged...
 

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On the subject of escalators and lifts at stations such as Saint P there is currently various mid-life upgrade work going on on both and I think this it will finish sometime next year. But there does seem to be an awful lot of other ones out in all sorts of places on the network, the ones at Edinburgh particularly from station to Princes Street have never worked properly from the day they were put in and should probably really be stripped out and replaced with something far more hardwareing such as on the London underground, same in fact could be said for virtually every other new escalator installed in the last 15 years, in my personal opinion cheap nasty rubbish
 

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Lifts regularly go in and out of service on a daily basis, and I imagine larger TOCs have one entrapment every day although normally released by engineers and not requiring the fire brigade.
 

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When London Bridge station was rebuilt, the escalators were fitted with loudspeakers at their base bellowing "HOLD THE HANdRAIL AND FACE THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL" when triggered by a person stepping on. If two step on two adjacent escalators within a fraction of a second, the voices boom out in stereo!
 

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The ones at City Thameslink (north end) are always out of service. A new one from the northbound platform was only installed a few months ago and has barely worked since
 
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