Fixed Stairs Flanked By Escalators

They are to stop people sliding down the handrail.

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Thank you, I will visit and take a look.

I'm pretty sure Highbury and Islington from the Victoria, possibly Paddington from the Bakerloo and Southgate all have stairs between the escalators

The staircases between escalators are numbered in the same sequence.

The are examples where the stairs have been replaced with an escalator.

I think you may need to define handrails.

Do you mean like these? www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/2011-11251

or do you mean metal handrails as on a normal staircase.

I can remember from the late 1960's & early to mid 1970's a couple of locations where there were either metal fixed handrails on the stairs or no handrails at all.

In both instances, the escalators flanking the stairs were the old-fashioned slatted wood style and they audibly chugged away as you used them.

I can't recall either location's name,but as I wasn't working in London then & my regular girlfriends were all down near me in Kent, the locations narrow down to either:

1-Interchange stations from the District to the Piccadilly & less likely Northern or Bakerloo lines from arriving main-line at Charing Cross or Victoria

2-The Tube stations serving those two termini or Euston(when going to Old Trafford for Utd. home games),just possibly King's Cross as an alternate route up North/changing point

3-Stations serving the top football grounds ie Fulham Broadway,Arsenal or Upton Park-Seven Sisters would probably have had modern escalators from the start & in those days I only went to Fulham by car or bus.

I'm sure there's somewhere on Merseyrail that this still exists. I think it's one of a bank of two rather than one in three, but it's deffo that - an escalator with stairs in rather than moving steps.

My understanding is that Simon is asking about stairs that don't have normal metal handrails instead of/in addition to the escalator handrails, as in the photo below

(the photo was taken in 2009)

Looking at @chris M's photo,that's exactly the style of handrail I remember and it was probably on a comparatively short & shallow escalator & maybe in a tucked-away section of an interchange or main-line serving Tube station, thus one that saw less footfall in the working week.

It may also have been a wooden rail-I never used it,just noticed it more than once. Equally, the rail-less stairs could have been a temporary phase between wooden & metal handrails.

There's a set of stairs like this at Heathrow T123 as well, from the surface/Bus station level down to Ticket Hall level.

I am assuming that this safety requirement also applies to fixed stairs alongside escalators, and on this basis it just about rules out what I wanted when I started this thread.

As I said at the start of this thread, there is someone at Shapeways who was working on creating a 3D model of a fixed stairway flanked by escalators but he was having difficulty getting the handrails right, so I wanted to show an example without handrails.

Since its not allowed anymore and what I am modelling is meant to be (sort of) modern image so I will want the fixed stairs to have the handrails.

I might scrap the whole idea or see if he can make just a fixed stairway that matches the length and step pitch of one of the escalators he already sells.

What is needed now is / are models of fixed stairways that are not in escalator shafts with two sets of handrails. A different story!

Thanks everyone for your assistance in this thread.

Simon

Thats something I overlooked - grandfather rights!

Thanks for the reminder.