Blindtraveler
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How does this work if say your first job of the day is a visit to the stationary cupboard on a different floor or, god forbid tea and no bickies with the boss on another?
How does this work if say your first job of the day is a visit to the stationary cupboard on a different floor or, god forbid tea and no bickies with the boss on another?
You press the button for the floor you're going to in the traditional manner. The display will then tell you which lift to go to. The calling pattern is dynamic, so if 12 people all suddenly want to go to the 4th floor it'll go straight there and not stop anywhere else. I was sceptical at first but it does seem to work.
Did anyone here ever get the chance to use the Montparnasse-Bienvenue fast travelator while it was up and running? Surreal experience, and I did particularly enjoy the high heel protection rollers at either end.
I remember using a lift when changing trains at Zurich station 2-3 years ago that went diagonally. It was so smooth you didn't really know that it was moving.
Not necessarily a fan of lifts or escalators but give me a paternoster any day.
There are some that I avoid whenever possible - I'm not good with heights so I hate using the glass-sided escalators - particularly over a large drop. the ones in Debenhams and john Lewis in Oxford street where you can see down to the basement from the top floor are really not good - I always use the lifts there (though the Debenhams lifts have a nasty habit of giving you a static shock when you press the call button!)
Glass-sided lifts are also a problem for me - up to 2 floors is OK but no higher.
Many years ago I recall visiting Porsecheplatz station in Essen Germany where one of the access routes featured a bank of four escalators.
What was unusual however was that these operated as 'express' and 'local'.
There were four outer escalators. Two of these linked the upper two levels whilst the other pair linked the lower two levels.
By way of contrast, the inner pair of escalators directly linked the top and bottom levels.
I just wish that I had taken a photo... this was the days before digital photography so I probably thought that the location would have been too dark to film.
When I did return with an intent to get some sort of image, no matter how good, I found that I was too late as the place was being rebuilt as an indoor shopping centre and the unique escalator layout was no more.
As an aside, the uppermost level was at an outdoor pedestrian area, the first level down was for the bus station (served by motor buses) and the second level down was an underground station which was served by trams and kerb guided trolleybuses.
Simon
The london transport museum have a mega rare spiral escalator apparently in store somewhere. It's been dismantles for years though but hopefully they could get it working.
One of my biggest fears has always been getting stuck in a lift! I guess for a lift fan it's probably quite cool?! Anybody got any 'stuck in a lift' tales?
One of my biggest fears has always been getting stuck in a lift! I guess for a lift fan it's probably quite cool?! Anybody got any 'stuck in a lift' tales?
Is this them?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=...12.0....0...1.1j2.64.img..2.0.0.0.OG_MmwTUyqU
( Link goes to Google Images search results for Porsecheplatz escalators" ) )
Oh, shame - but the linked articles say that new installation have been prohibited since 1974 (!), so you can see why it would become uneconomic to keep repairing with custom parts every time you needed to..Leicester university propose to scrap their paternoster lift, one of the few working examples remaining in the UK,
Most regrettable in my view http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-42363360/paternoster-the-rare-lift-that-went-over-the-top
It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform the University community that we are going to have to retire the Paternoster lift in the Attenborough Tower.
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We’ve looked at a range of options and thought carefully about this, but it would be both impractical and uneconomic to attempt to fix it or replace it as spare parts for Paternosters are no longer available and need to be manufactured each time they are needed.
Our plan is to remove the Paternoster and install a new lift in its place which will be in addition to the lift already in the Attenborough and will meet the needs of all building users. However this work is unlikely to be complete until September 2018.
Leicester university propose to scrap their paternoster lift, one of the few working examples remaining in the UK,
Most regrettable in my view http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-42363360/paternoster-the-rare-lift-that-went-over-the-top
As well as disabled access there is a need for a conventional lift for transporting goods.it has a conventional lift alongside it to comply with disabled access regulations