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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2009 18:39:32 GMT
Travelling through Covent Garden twice in the past week or so, there have been problems that I have never experienced before.
On Monday 21st December, at approximately 3pm, I was trying to get from Covent Garden to Liverpool Street. When I get to Covent Garden, I find that there is actually a queue to get through the barriers and queue for a lift. The queue was so bad that station staff were asking, over the PA, for people to use Leicester Square instead.
The second thing that happened took place today. I enter Covent Garden station to get to Stratford, and this time make it through the barriers. As I'm standing waiting for lift number 1, I can hear a bell ringing downstairs. It's a bell of the type most schools have as a fire alarm, but this one cannot have been a fire alarm, because at no point were we asked to leave the station.
Were either of these actual problems, or is it just that Christmas 2009 has been the first Christmas where I have had to travel, and these are in fact regular occurrences?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2009 19:05:57 GMT
Why not use Holborn to get onto the Central Line - would be easier than using Covent Garden?
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Post by Chris M on Dec 30, 2009 19:11:16 GMT
Overcrowding is a regular feature pretty much every evening and weekend at Covent Garden, hence the well signed routes to Holborn and Leicester Square, notices on every Piccadilly Line train, all over Covent Garden station and at least some at Leicester Square and Holborn stations all advising you to use Holborn or Leicester Square instead.
Also, Charing Cross, Embankment, Temple and Tottenham Court Road stations are not much further away.
If you are heading to Stratford, then it will actually be quicker to walk to Holborn and catch the Central Line from there when you factor in the interchange time at Holborn. When you add in queuing time on top of that then it really doesn't make sense to use CG and then change at either Leicester Square or Holborn.
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Post by memorex on Dec 30, 2009 23:18:52 GMT
I think the alarm bell may have been due to an emergency stop button being pushed - I seem to remember, but not being sure, that an audible alarm sounds on the upper landing..
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Post by jamesb on Dec 31, 2009 0:00:19 GMT
The lift alarm is always going off, in my experience.
It can mean the lift has malfunctioned, and goes off automatically, or goes off if somebody presses the lift alarm.
I think it is just a signal for staff to check whats happened.
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Post by North End on Dec 31, 2009 0:40:45 GMT
I think the alarm bell may have been due to an emergency stop button being pushed - I seem to remember, but not being sure, that an audible alarm sounds on the upper landing.. Just dug out the handbook from when I did my lift training some while ago, haven't touched a lift since: When the alarm goes off, the Supervisor should go to the landing control panel, where there is a row of visuals which illuminate for various faults as follows: - Supply faulure - circuit breaker tripped - Door closing sign failure - if one or both bulbs fail - Doors obstructed, if the "safe edge" has triggered - Lift stopped in shaft - Passenger alarm operated I can't find it in the book, but I think the bell also doubles up as a proximity alarm, for use when the lift is being manually wound, the bell sounds to inform staff that the lift is level with the landing. This is all unlike some of the newer MIP-type lifts, where all staff do is phone a call centre and a technician gets called out. |
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Post by londonboy on Dec 31, 2009 11:32:17 GMT
I think the alarm bell may have been due to an emergency stop button being pushed - I seem to remember, but not being sure, that an audible alarm sounds on the upper landing.. Just dug out the handbook from when I did my lift training some while ago, haven't touched a lift since: When the alarm goes off, the Supervisor should go to the landing control panel, where there is a row of visuals which illuminate for various faults as follows: - Supply faulure - circuit breaker tripped - Door closing sign failure - if one or both bulbs fail - Doors obstructed, if the "safe edge" has triggered - Lift stopped in shaft - Passenger alarm operated I can't find it in the book, but I think the bell also doubles up as a proximity alarm, for use when the lift is being manually wound, the bell sounds to inform staff that the lift is level with the landing. This is all unlike some of the newer MIP-type lifts, where all staff do is phone a call centre and a technician gets called out. Door Closing sign Failure no longer causes the alarm to go off, The proximity bell is in the machine room, The bell that rings on the upper and lower landings is both the Passenger alarm and the failure alarm HTH |
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