TUBE GLIDES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1959, 16 January 1914, Page 3

TUBE GLIDES

.-■■ i.."No more?liftsSj , -r!\VeV : ioblt' ,, .'iipon , lifts as ..ont-of-dats--. now, ,, ..jsaid'?Mr.'■ J. ' V. Thomas,. superintendent.- of.\tlie'" : London Electric" Kailvrayt'Compjiny*.- not long ago4£'We shall certainly Slot build any more'-lifts-at our new. stations, and at all busy stations.where the traiuo.-.justi-fies. the cost,, we shall put in moving staircases, instead of' them.',.i.Thera are 2-10 -'tube': lifts, in-'London , now.: . . ■ /"At.'Paddington,;.,'.'on. the Bakerloa 'tube,' "where ~,wo are-' running -.through trial.trains"on;.the'i iiewly-eomnleted cxtcusion, wo havo got. tho largest moving staircase in the' countrv. It-is in a tunnel, 22ft.- wide, Hhe 'same., size as a station,'at an anglo.of 60 with 46 steps. ■-.There; ajo two moving stairoases and one stationary.one. : . The moving ones, .will carry.....10,800 'people, an honry'or,,;allowing 'for- the people ■■■■■~who walk . down, 10,01)0, ■. and ahout half can' go up. the stn-tionai-y vstaircaseSFor with rush traffic one -staircase.,can: bo quick-, ly reversed, 'so that- 40,000.-persons an hour will be'able. to ; use the staircases in one direction-";; 'te/; , ;- ..-/',;■:. _. '.-\ .'■.. Another great'improvement to be carried out is'thcKrciiiovnl of the British Museunv.Station to a site next, to that .of .'on'/tho Piccadilly "tube,V-Vrije -, distance b'ctivctm the stations has,, a source of inconvenience.'i|.Tlio'.- 7 nD«- .stations'nvili : bo connected, aiHl.,tlioro will bo "glides" to and from the ■jjlatfornis.'-.The'throuj'Ji joumc.V: , -trom.JPiccadilly .and ; stations west. of;,-.it,. to ...the.-, bank- and tho-city generally-Uvsll.. be. greatlv shortened. .-.