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Post by rsdworker on Nov 4, 2011 9:45:37 GMT
from wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathrow_Terminals_1,_2,_3_tube_station so i was wondering if anyone has seen new lifts cause i remember this station had lift but very small lift (its was hidden away behind the doors at one end of platform - the staff had to take me in lift cause its wasn't step free lift - its was staff lift requiring person to press button at bottom of platform escalators so anyone has photos of new lifts? edit - added link to the quote  |
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Post by 315 on Nov 7, 2011 17:27:08 GMT
They are currently being installed and behind some blue hoarding
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Post by rsdworker on Nov 7, 2011 19:59:07 GMT
They are currently being installed and behind some blue hoarding oh that location is same place where old lift went? cause maps show wheelchair symbol still exists so means old lift will decommison after new lifts installed? but if old lift has already removed and how wheelchairs get upstairs? like stairlift as tempoary transport between ticket hall and platforms |
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Post by v52gc on Nov 7, 2011 20:58:16 GMT
The old lift is still there. There wouldn't be anywhere to put a stairlift reasonably anyway.
Incidentally the platforms have got humps now!
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Post by rsdworker on Nov 8, 2011 12:16:17 GMT
The old lift is still there. There wouldn't be anywhere to put a stairlift reasonably anyway. Incidentally the platforms have got humps now! oh - so where was new lifts? cause i thought its was next to old ones? |
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Post by Dom K on Nov 8, 2011 12:30:17 GMT
I havent been to heathrow for ages... How's the refurb going?
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Post by rsdworker on Dec 3, 2011 18:47:39 GMT
so any word on new lifts because i haven't heard anything on progress
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Post by 21146 on Jan 12, 2012 17:26:30 GMT
New cream tiling with blue relief around 80% complete. This seems to be the same job-lot as used at Stratford and Blackfriars. Some of the roundels are oddly positioned part obscuring the horizontal colour bands on the pillars. Bits of orange tiling still extant in places. The Tom Eckersley 'Concorde' motifs have, shamefully, been replaced with replicas. The originals had a black background and were melamine, the new ones are enamel and have a brown base. No surprise they no longer bear the artist's signature either. www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/6680239407/in/photostream |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2012 18:43:51 GMT
I really hope they don't replace the white on blue background name boards, I think they look alot nicer than the standard ones.
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Post by 21146 on Jan 12, 2012 19:29:40 GMT
This white-on-blue platform friezes have disappeared from almost the entire Victoria Line, with just Pimlico remaining. They have also gone from Hatton Cross and Hounslow West. Also removed from T123 are the back-lit illuminated platform roundels, another Victoria Line innovation. To get back OT, platform humps now allow level access to the train though it appears any new lifts remain to be commissioned.
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Post by rsdworker on Jan 13, 2012 16:48:49 GMT
New cream tiling with blue relief around 80% complete. This seems to be the same job-lot as used at Stratford and Blackfriars. Some of the roundels are oddly positioned part obscuring the horizontal colour bands on the pillars. Bits of orange tiling still extant in places. The Tom Eckersley 'Concorde' motifs have, shamefully, been replaced with replicas. The originals had a black background and were melamine, the new ones are enamel and have a brown base. No surprise they no longer bear the artist's signature either. www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/6680239407/in/photostreamlooks great so where the new lifts are because photo didn't show where the blue hoardings was |
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Post by rsdworker on Jul 20, 2012 16:04:55 GMT
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Post by rsdworker on Jul 22, 2012 21:05:50 GMT
Not sure what you mean, that lift was step free, I used to use it from platform to bus station on night shift, the intermediate levels were the Non passenger mezzanine area and the ticket hall. The buttons were in the lift for the four floors. the old small lift (this was for staff use) but newer one is bigger which is public - no need for staff to operate the small lift only can hold 3 people in - 1 wheelchair 2 people - and its behind locked doors at ticket hall and platform level means the heavy luggage would have to ask for lift to be used when its with staff |
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Post by rsdworker on Jul 23, 2012 16:42:31 GMT
the old small lift (this was for staff use) but newer one is bigger which is public - no need for staff to operate the small lift only can hold 3 people in - 1 wheelchair 2 people - and its behind locked doors at ticket hall and platform level means the heavy luggage would have to ask for lift to be used when its with staff My comment was simply that it was a 'step free' lift, the original poster suggesting that it was not! Yep, not really convenient for wheelchairs or heavy baggage or indeed urgently required signalling equipment due to the capacity/ weight restrictions but we did have to use it for such in emergencies occasionally even though the DSM was not happy and wanted written guarantees that we wouldn't break it! yeah that right - the new lifts should be great for staff as well to transport heavy things down or up avoiding small lift i often seen staff with heavy things using it at mainline stations eg transporting equipment from platform to platform via passenger lifts in early/late 90s - they often use old fashioned goods lifts which staff would take disabled to those lifts to transfer between platforms i wish the Hounslow west station needs proper lift - there step free but via stairlift (installed early 90's?) if TFL installed one then prams and baggage and wheelchair can use it without help so i hope someone will take photo of new lifts soon |
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