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Title: The new what-do-you-call-it lift at Greenford Post by: stuving on October 22, 2015, 22:52:35 I missed that this was being built. I remember the old escalator, up only and rather long, and the stair tunnel looking much dingier than does now (even in the 1950s, when the station was quite new).
From the Evening Standard (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/tubes-first-sloping-lift-installed-at-greenford-ending-68year-wait-for-disabled-access-a3095491.html): Quote Tube's first 'sloping lift' installed at Greenford, ending 68-year wait for disabled access Ramzy Alwakeel Wednesday 21 October 2015 (http://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2015/10/21/08/Lift2110a.jpg) You wait 68 years for a lift: The new design has been unveiled at Greenford station Transport for London A revolutionary lift that runs up a slope on miniature rails has opened at a Tube station in west London. The design, the first of its kind on the British rail network, ends commuters^ 68-year wait for disabled access at Greenford in Ealing. It comes six years after plans to excavate a vertical lift shaft at the station were shelved on grounds of cost. Transport for London said the new design, which resembles a funicular, was twice as efficient to run and cheaper to build as it did not require a shaft at all. The design will be copied at two Crossrail stations when they open in 2018. Lianna Etkind of campaign charity Transport for All called the lift ^a fantastic example of a clever innovation that has opened up this station to older and disabled people^. Greenford opened in 1947 and until last year had the Tube network^s last wooden escalator. Work to replace the capital^s escalators with metal ones began after the 1987 King^s Cross fire, which started underneath one. Isabel Dedring, the deputy mayor for transport, said: ^The Mayor has set an ambitious target of ensuring more than half of TfL^s stations are step-free by 2018. ^This lift is the first of its kind in the UK and a great example of one of the many innovative projects now underway to achieve that.^ Greenford is the 67th step-free station, leaving 203 to go. Ealing^s transport chief Cllr Bassam Mahfouz said the lift would ^mean the world of difference^ for disabled people and those with young children, claiming some of them ^will now be able to access London for the first time in their lives because of this new lift^. Here's a video of the thing. (http://londonist.com/2015/10/video-a-ride-on-greenford-tube-s-new-incline-lift) It doesn't seem to have an accepted name yet (well, why would it if there were none?). Any name must fit with ordinary lifts - vertical, if the distinction is needed - and horizontal lifts, for which we are still waiting but could find a use at stations too. Title: Re: The new what-do-you-call-it lift at Greenford Post by: JayMac on October 22, 2015, 22:55:53 'Inclinator' as a name seems okay to me.
Title: Re: The new what-do-you-call-it lift at Greenford Post by: SandTEngineer on October 23, 2015, 06:55:39 What about the inclined planes at various seaside resorts etc. Not exactly a new idea. Perhaphs one of the designers had a holiday in Lynton/Lynemouth ::) :o :P
Title: Re: The new what-do-you-call-it lift at Greenford Post by: John R on October 23, 2015, 08:30:26 Isn't there one at Ebbw Vale Town station? If so the claim to be the first of its kind on the rail network isn't correct.
Title: Re: The new what-do-you-call-it lift at Greenford Post by: Red Squirrel on October 23, 2015, 08:42:52 'Lift' seems a perfectly adequate word to me - why invent a new name? I note that the station signage calls it that. Otherwise, I propose 'deflubbicator'.
Title: Re: The new what-do-you-call-it lift at Greenford Post by: JayMac on October 23, 2015, 11:09:08 Isn't there one at Ebbw Vale Town station? If so the claim to be the first of its kind on the rail network isn't correct. The 'lift' at Ebbw Vale isn't within the station and was funded by the local authority. It's a totally separate development to Ebbw Vale Town station. Title: Re: The new what-do-you-call-it lift at Greenford Post by: Electric train on October 23, 2015, 16:21:11 Greenford now has a vernacular railway ;D
Title: Re: The new what-do-you-call-it lift at Greenford Post by: stuving on October 23, 2015, 18:06:40 Greenford now has a vernacular railway ;D It had one of those before - the 'push-and-pull'. Title: Re: The new what-do-you-call-it lift at Greenford Post by: Electric train on October 24, 2015, 08:28:24 Greenford now has a vernacular railway ;D It had one of those before - the 'push-and-pull'. I must turn off the $%&I&@ predictive text in my new spell checker :-\ ;D So Greenford now has funicular railway or in the vernacular a lift This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |