The metal sides of the escalator also served to contain the flames and direct the temperature ahead of the fire.

Investigations later showed that a particular combination of draughts, caused by an eastbound train arriving at the station while a westbound train was leaving, created a 12 mph wind through the station and up the escalator ( known as the piston effect ; this helps ventilate the tube ), adding to the speed of the fire spreading.

There is a small retail space standing at the bottom of the long escalator bank in the original station area, where the corridor splits into the westbound and eastbound routes.

This would be the excuse for all sorts of happenings, such as the two-man inter-rabbi bobsleigh championships ( to be held on the down escalator at Leicester Square underground station — weather and platform tickets permitting ), Formation Goat Nadgering, Paso Doble Jockey Wagging, Floodlit Horse Massage, and Nark Fettering on Ice, and reports of the latest activities of the Over-Eighties Nudist Leapfrog ( or Basketball, or Judo ) Team.

Airside 4 provides escalator access directly from the customs hall to the people mover platform.

Unusually it has an escalator directly linking the platform to the street at the exit to the Rue Leibniz.

An escalator and staircase lead down from the faregates to the platform.

The station is one of the few on the system to have a single escalator serving the platform, usually set to carry passengers up.

In December 2003, security cameras at this station filmed a deer walking around the station mezzanine, running down an escalator, and going down the platform past a waiting train, as startled passengers watched.

There is an escalator from fare control to the southbound platform, bypassing the mezzanine.

The Manhattan-bound platform also has a short, up-only escalator from the station house.

The adjacent northbound Bakerloo Line platform suffered smoke damage, as did the escalator tunnel and the booking hall.

Alperton shared with Greenford ( on the Central Line ) the distinction of being one of the only two stations to have an escalator going up to a platform.

This escalator runs from the fare mezzanine to the inbound subway platform level.

** Exit Only from the southbound platform, by escalator to the west sidewalk of Yonge, just south of Melinda

In terms of accessibility, while there are escalators leading from platform level, there is at least one small sub-flight of stairs between it and a second escalator in order to reach the surface.

From the concourse level they can then choose in which direction they would like to travel and take another escalator ride down to the respective platform.

One up-only escalator and one long staircase go down to the fare control area at ground level, where one staircase goes down to the southbound IND platform and one turnstile bank provides access to / from the station.

The entrance has separate escalator access to the platform levels independent of the existing station in a similar two up / one down configuration for the longest bank, and a ticket-vending level with a connection to the existing Granville Mall entrance and The Bay / Pacific Centre.

* Dunsmuir Street Entrance, built in 2006, provides elevator and escalator access between street and platform.

No elevator and escalator access is available from this entrance ; however, wheelchair access to platform can be made using elevator from nearby development via a circuitous routing.

Up escalator is available between concourse and platform level, but no escalator is provided from the street level.

Stairs, an elevator and an escalator connect the platform to the + 15.

The station has a center-loading platform that is accessed by stairs and an escalator inside the station building.

Thus most of the platform is high, and is connected to the street ( at least in the upward direction ) by escalator.

Lothar Goetz created an artwork ' Canon ' using different coloured vitreous enamel panels in the concourse, escalator shaft and platform areas.

The escalator on which the fire started had been built just before World War II.

The running track had not been cleaned since the escalator was constructed in the 1940s and was covered in grease and fibrous detritus.

While inspecting an undamaged escalator, forensic investigators found charred wood in 18 places beneath the up escalator, which showed that similar fires had started before but had burnt themselves out without spreading.

The investigators found a large build-up of grease under the tracks, but it was believed it would be difficult to ignite and slow to burn once it started ; however it was noted that the grease was heavily impregnated with paper fragments from discarded tickets, sweet wrappers, fluff from clothing, and both human and rat hair ; records showed the under stair tracks had not been cleaned since the escalator was constructed in the 1940s.

However, a so-called " escalator clause " was included at the urging of American negotiators in case all of the countries that had signed the Washington Naval Treaty refused to adhere to this new limit.

On December 31, 2007 MARTA had three separate escalator accidents that injured at least 11 people.

Inflation was however often in the two-digits, and this was dealt with eliminating a wage-price increase link known as scala mobile (" escalator "); under this system, wages had been increased automatically depending on inflation.

The government had already abandoned the fuel tax escalator in early 2000.

It is relatively deep ; prior to the opening of the Wheaton station, the Bethesda station had the longest escalator () in the Western Hemisphere.

In July 1991, Metro paid an additional $ 1 million to install stronger escalator treads at the nine planned Green Line stations ( including Anacostia ) as well as the Wheaton and Van Dorn Street stations after discovering that the escalator treads it had ordered were insufficiently strong.

Nonetheless a similar incident occurred on 18 November 1987 at King's Cross St. Pancras tube station when it was concluded as probable that a passenger had dropped a lit match onto an escalator.

The station originally had only a small structure covering the stairs and escalator to / from the mezzanine, but was expanded to the present configuration in the early 1980s.

It opened on March 31, 1959 as an admission-free hospitality facility for Tampa Anheuser-Busch ; in addition to various beer tastings they had, a bird garden and the Stairway to the Stars which was an escalator that took guests to the roof of the brewery.

Though it occurred when he was playing football, he told his county that he had slipped on an escalator.

The film was originally released in the United States under the title Stairway to Heaven, which derived from the film's most prominent special effect: a broad escalator linking Earth to the afterlife.

Passengers must, curiously for an underground station, go up an escalator from the Moorfields entrance to reach the ticket office-the station was originally intended to connect with a pedestrian walkway system, designed to separate pedestrians from traffic.