Lifts and escalators

[Martin1988]

Not the conventional form of public transport but does anyone on here have an interest in lifts/elevators or escalators?

If so, what are your favourite makes/brands and do you prefer the older variety or the newer/modernised variety?

 

[168lover]

Well this conversation escalated quickly(sorry, couldn't resist)

 

[Blindtraveler]

Well we have at least 1 other member who goes by the name of LiftFan

theres is of course a growing number of escalater/lift filmers on youtube.

I have a passing interest but before I go any further may I please have my standard moan about the awful cheep shopping centre escalaters installed at Edinburgh Waverley/Birmingham New Street/Kings Cross and doubtless others and why are Network Rail incapable of installing escalaters fit for a transport environment? LU have been managing it for years.

 

[AlterEgo]

Not necessarily a fan of lifts or escalators but give me a paternoster any day.

 

[Dai Corner]

Well we have at least 1 other member who goes by the name of LiftFan

theres is of course a growing number of escalater/lift filmers on youtube.

I have a passing interest but before I go any further may I please have my standard moan about the awful cheep shopping centre escalaters installed at Edinburgh Waverley/Birmingham New Street/Kings Cross and doubtless others and why are Network Rail incapable of installing escalaters fit for a transport environment? LU have been managing it for years.

Out of interest, what is the difference between an escalator used to reach a train and one used to reach a shop? Or one used to travel between trains and shops like at New Street?

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Last time I was in the ASDA in Hamilton Palace, the handrail of the up escalator was moving faster than the treads, something I didn't think that was possible. Maybe it was "topple a pensioner" week.

 

[stut]

I love the escalators in the Prague metro - some deep stations there, but they whizz up and down far faster than the ones in this country.

Did anyone here ever get the chance to use the Montparnasse-Bienvenue fast travelator while it was up and running? Surreal experience, and I did particularly enjoy the high heel protection rollers at either end.

As for lifts, I forget the make, but I did recently have the experience of a three-doored lift in an old building in Copenhagen. Quite confusing...

 

[Blindtraveler]

Did it make announcements along the lines of "This is the 3rd floor, doors will open on the right hand side" similar to the 96/09 tube stock?

An escalater for a transport environment needs IMO to be heavier duty than a shopping centre, able to take luggage, high usage and people occasionally sprinting up or down for a train. In other words look at any metro/underground system and you get the idea.

 

[Rick1984]

The escalators on Prague metro are lethal. Stepping onto one is like taking your life into your own hands!

Not necessarily a fan of lifts or escalators but give me a paternoster any day.

Now the one in Glasgow Uni has gone are there any left in UK?

 

[AM9]

Last time I was in the ASDA in Hamilton Palace, the handrail of the up escalator was moving faster than the treads, something I didn't think that was possible. Maybe it was "topple a pensioner" week.

I have been on many escalators where the handrail moves slightly faster than the steps. I wonder whether it is intentional, to encourage some to walk forward whist on the steps which slightly increases throughput and reduces average transit time.

 

[eastwestdivide]

I'd like to try the Hammetschwand-Lift in Lucerne:
http://www.buergenstock.ch/en/current-opening-hours/hammetschwand-lift

 

[Tetchytyke]

As for lifts, I forget the make, but I did recently have the experience of a three-doored lift in an old building in Copenhagen. Quite confusing...

We have one of those in M&S.

I want to go on the Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto in Genoa.

 

[Rick1984]

I have been in a diagonal traveling elevator up the Riga TV Tower

 

[DasLunatic]

Now the one in Glasgow Uni has gone are there any [paternosters] left in UK?

I know of paternosters at:

- Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex
- That tower at the University of Leeds

 

[Dr Hoo]

Did anyone here ever get the chance to use the Montparnasse-Bienvenue fast travelator while it was up and running? Surreal experience, and I did particularly enjoy the high heel protection rollers at either end....

The Montparnasse fast travelator was brilliant. So glad that all the family got the chance to try it as an adjunct to a trip to Disneyland. More fun that some of the rides there, free and no queues. What was not to like? I know that children were theoretically banned but we still managed it.

Nice inclinator diagonal lift at Greenford station. More coming to Crossrail soon...

 

[Busaholic]

Did anyone here ever get the chance to use the Montparnasse-Bienvenue fast travelator while it was up and running? Surreal experience, and I did particularly enjoy the high heel protection rollers at either end.

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On my first visit to Paris, and a couple of later ones. I left the high heels back in the hotel on those occasions, though

 

[urpert]

Bah, every time I passed through Montparnasse it was closed off

 

[skyhigh]

I know of paternosters at:

- Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex
- That tower at the University of Leeds

Unfortunately the one at Leeds was replaced by a rather boring lift a while back

 

[Busaholic]

What is a paternoster?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I have been on many escalators where the handrail moves slightly faster than the steps.

A lot of escalators in London... the handrail can actually stop momentarily if you are holding it while you walk up the escalator; it is as if the application of your weight through that hand while you step upwards is enough to stall the handrail - surely that shouldn't happen and the handrail should continue to turn no matter how much load is placed on it?

 

[AlterEgo]

What is a paternoster?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3Fc_yG3p0

 

[richard1976]

I know of paternosters at:

- Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex
- That tower at the University of Leeds

The Arts tower at the University of Sheffield still has one

 

[stut]

I have been in a diagonal traveling elevator up the Riga TV Tower

Oh, they're fun. I like that they're getting put in alongside escalators to give access to underground stations - the ones at Triangeln in Malmo and Nationaltheatret in Oslo are particularly fun.

 

[eastwestdivide]

Another paternoster at Leicester University, although this 2017 story says its currently out of action:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/staff/announcements/attenborough-paternoster-out-of-action

The paternoster is one of only three operating paternosters in the UK

and a story about "going over the top" here: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/f...rite-passage/story-27888676-detail/story.html

which I've done. The cars don't turn upside down of course.

 

[Mikey C]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJBD1wf-YQ

This shows what happens at the top of the Sheffield one

 

[AlterEgo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJBD1wf-YQ

This shows what happens at the top of the Sheffield one

I was expecting something like a hidden floor from Being John Malkovich.

 

[flymo]

Two pairs of curved escalators in Hong Kong, basement of Lane Crawford department store in Causeway Bay. Really neat things, probably a 60 degree curve or something.

 

[Blindtraveler]

I cant see that one in Leicester being fixed as it surely will be cheeper to change it for new conventional lifts?

What does the forum think of the Network Rail Standard Stanna installation at many many stations in the UK?

 

[kevjs]

A lot of escalators in London... the handrail can actually stop momentarily if you are holding it while you walk up the escalator; it is as if the application of your weight through that hand while you step upwards is enough to stall the handrail - surely that shouldn't happen and the handrail should continue to turn no matter how much load is placed on it?

The ones at intu Broadmarsh (before they closed a few weeks ago) had one handrail moving faster than the steps, and the other which stopped if you touched it too heavily handed or "twisted" it. Being rather narrow and rough riding it was all too easy to end up with your hands on both - rather odd sensation!

 

[Blindtraveler]

Did the afformentioned issue result in their closure or is the cenre or escalaters being refurbished?