There still wooden escalators at Marylebone when I started travelling through there in the mid 90s. They were soon replaced… and the replacements have now been replaced. Maybe it’s time I retired…
I used a wooden escalator on the London Underground back in the late 60s/early 70s during my hippie days. I was wearing a long dress, and the hem caught down the side of the step!
I’d actually forgotten wooden escalators. Feel sad that my partner will never experience them.
Do those grilles still exist that allow you to look down from a walkway onto another tube line?
I’m not sure where it came from but my mam became a devotee of Brentford Nylons. There was a factory in Pelaw and Suddenly me and Dad had quilted nylon Dressing gowns reversible mustard/black and she had a floral affair. We even had mustard nylon velvet curtains, she was very into ‘Autumn’ colours
Ok. Blimey. I’m quite old, 60, & I used St Pancras tube station a lot. Then you could smoke on the Underground, everyone bought an evening paper on their way home. Paper litter, dropped fags, a maze of draughty tunnels, wooden escalators. Horrific. I can’t remember when they banned 🚬 on the Tube.
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Do those grilles still exist that allow you to look down from a walkway onto another tube line?