tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089992381999514.post4536334777751924222..comments2023-04-30T09:18:28.705+01:00Comments on To the end of the line: Central Line: Hanger Lane - West RuislipIan Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10220962051392602822noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089992381999514.post-37383442464138622142008-08-11T19:38:00.000+01:002008-08-11T19:38:00.000+01:00Blimey - I remember those wooden escalators. Like...Blimey - I remember those wooden escalators. Like you that picture brings back memories of trips to London holding tight onto the leather handrails on the escalators and wondering jut when I'd be tall enough to strap hang on the trains...MarkFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12864353883967594440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089992381999514.post-82556148265409669242008-08-06T17:50:00.000+01:002008-08-06T17:50:00.000+01:00I may take a trip up there just to take a look - i...I may take a trip up there just to take a look - it's bound not to be there indefinitely.<BR/><BR/>Taking a look at Flickr (by searching for 'wooden escalator tube) : http://is.gd/1h5j<BR/><BR/>there are several examples of it there, so obviously a few others are equally impressed by it!mjw4849https://www.blogger.com/profile/10994656581228400518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089992381999514.post-29660104612439095342008-08-06T10:09:00.000+01:002008-08-06T10:09:00.000+01:00Thanks for the comments. Yeah, I was really taken ...Thanks for the comments. Yeah, I was really taken aback to find a wooden escalator. It brought back really vivid memories of trips to London when I was a child. I wonder how many people actually know - or care - it exists...Ian Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10220962051392602822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089992381999514.post-70721423718406971952008-08-05T21:16:00.000+01:002008-08-05T21:16:00.000+01:00I have truly been enjoying your blog, and I look f...I have truly been enjoying your blog, and I look forward to each new entry! Today, I was really pleased to see that there is a wooden escalator still in existence on the Underground. I had thought they were all long gone, only to live on in memories and museums.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089992381999514.post-11058882768119148542008-08-05T19:58:00.000+01:002008-08-05T19:58:00.000+01:00When we used to go to London to be in studio audie...When we used to go to London to be in studio audiences, we always used to drive up to West Ruislip and then take the Central Line into White City, and when we arrived there - normally mid-afternoon - we were always the only people there, and the same was true when we used to arrive back there at about 10.30pm. I've not been there now for over a decade, but I still remember the fruitless search for a toilet (I don't think there is one, or if there is it's always closed) and the shlep across the bridge to the tube platforms from the car park.<BR/><BR/>We did once manage to time it with this part of the line being closed and had to get a bus to, I think, North Acton, which is the dullest journey in the world.Steve Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870981671564008402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089992381999514.post-20633320502667687492008-08-05T14:52:00.000+01:002008-08-05T14:52:00.000+01:00Looking at your photos, they may inspire me to go ...Looking at your photos, they may inspire me to go to Greenford to take a look at the wooden escalators - that's almost like something you'd expect to see in the London Transport Museum! (Like, I suppose, Gants Hill)<BR/><BR/>Good work, I'm really enjoying reading about the ends of these lines that I've never been to - I may summon up the energy to go to these places one of these days! :)mjw4849https://www.blogger.com/profile/10994656581228400518noreply@blogger.com