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A century of the escalator Oct 3, 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Post by Chris W on Oct 3, 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Only too happy to mention a quality railway blog, Ian Visits mentions that Tuesday 4 October represents 100 years of the station escalator

Well worth a look and even a shortcut/Favorite/Bookmark

The darkest day of this innovative method of helping passengers through statons, so often taken for granted, would undoubtably be the Kings Cross fire of 18 November 1987.

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A century of the escalator Oct 3, 2011 20:13:48 GMT

Post by norbitonflyer on Oct 3, 2011 20:13:48 GMT

A link from that blog in turn reveals a new and little heralded development - suitably-trained guide dogs (and police dogs) may now use escalators without being carried. Given that they are on the large end of the doggie size spectrum, carrying was not usually an option anyway, so most blind people simply couldn't use escalators.

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A century of the escalator Oct 3, 2011 20:29:33 GMT

Post by Chris W on Oct 3, 2011 20:29:33 GMT

And HERE'S that link...

Outdated.... understatement of the century ;D ;D ;D

Perhaps I'm being flippant by stating the bleeding obvious, but why would anyone in their right mind not think that those visually impaired would know that they should carry their guide dogs... surely there would have been signs everywhere

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