Trivia: Largest town without an escalator?

[telstarbox]

I'll open the bidding with Tonbridge, population circa 40k. (It does have a couple of lifts at the station).

 

[najaB]

I'll open the bidding with Tonbridge, population circa 40k. (It does have a couple of lifts at the station).

Is that in the entire town, or just at the station?

 

[TheNewNo2]

I read once that the whole of Wyoming had only two escalators in the whole state.

 

[telstarbox]

Is that in the entire town, or just at the station?

The whole town. There can't be many stations outsider the 25 busiest with escalators.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I'll nominate Dewsbury as a contender...

Population: 62,945 (2011 Census). I can't think of any buildings with escalators within the ring-road nor immediately outside it (which includes the station). Batley, though smaller, has multiple escalators in the Mill Outlet and the travelators in the Tesco.

 

[urpert]

It was big news when BHS in Newport opened in the mid 90s as it contained the Isle of Wight's first escalator.

 

[Ianno87]

The shopping centre in Carmarthen has an escalator.

I did ponder briefly whether it was the westernmost escalator in Wales.

 

[Crossover]

I'll nominate Dewsbury as a contender...

Population: 62,945 (2011 Census). I can't think of any buildings with escalators within the ring-road nor immediately outside it (which includes the station). Batley, though smaller, has multiple escalators in the Mill Outlet and the travelators in the Tesco.

Me neither - all the shops are broadly single floor - one of the few that isn't would be Sports Direct, but I don't think it has anything other than steps/lift.

 

[gnolife]

I can't think of anywhere in Sale (population 134,022 in the 2011 census) with an escalator.

 

[Busaholic]

The shopping centre in Carmarthen has an escalator.

I did ponder briefly whether it was the westernmost escalator in Wales.

Westernmost escalator in England is in Poundstretcher in Penzance, but only in the up direction! The westernmost down escalator is in the Wharfside Shopping Centre in Pz.: when the latter opened in 1991 my wife was asked by an elderly couple if she could assist them on getting on it as neither had ever experienced one before.

 

[Jonny]

I can't think of anywhere in Sale (population 134,022 in the 2011 census) with an escalator.

Does the Trafford Centre count?

 

[northwichcat]

Does the Trafford Centre count?

Trafford Centre is in Stretford not Sale.

 

[DarloRich]

this is esoteric even for this web site!

 

[pdq]

The shopping centre in Carmarthen has an escalator.



I did ponder briefly whether it was the westernmost escalator in Wales.

Nothing in Haverfordwest? Maybe in the former Ocky White department store, or in the newer out of town stores near Withybush Hospital?

Does anyone remember the old Co-op store in Pembroke Dock - did that have one?

 

[ChiefPlanner]

WALES again , I seem to recall over 25 years ago , friends commenting on the M+S at Bangor having an escalator.

Shades of Garrison Keilor and Lake Woebegone ,if anyone here has ever read this - ....

 

[scrapy]

I can't think of anywhere in Sale (population 134,022 in the 2011 census) with an escalator.

No don't think there are now. There used to be one in the old coop department store (Where Aldi is now) and one in the indoor market

 

[Mag_seven]

I'll open the bidding with Tonbridge, population circa 40k. (It does have a couple of lifts at the station).

Have you been in every building in Tonbridge to verify this then?

 

[scrapy]

Westernmost escalator in England is in Poundstretcher in Penzance, but only in the up direction! The westernmost down escalator is in the Wharfside Shopping Centre in Pz.: when the latter opened in 1991 my wife was asked by an elderly couple if she could assist them on getting on it as neither had ever experienced one before.

I this also the southernmost? Think the one in Beales in Lowestoft is the easternmost.

 

[Busaholic]

I this also the southernmost? Think the one in Beales in Lowestoft is the easternmost.

Assuming the Lizard is an escalator-free zone (couldn't swear to RNAS Culdrose, though)then quite possibly.

 

[AlterEgo]

Assuming the Lizard is an escalator-free zone (couldn't swear to RNAS Culdrose, though)then quite possibly.

I have never seen an escalator on a military base, and I've been to quite a few!

 

[northwichcat]

I've never been to a UK hotel and seen an escalator but have seen them in hotels in other countries. I wonder some towns have a place like a hotel which has an escalator that not many people who live in the town are aware of?

 

[edwin_m]

I have never seen an escalator on a military base, and I've been to quite a few!

Turned on a programme about the Pentagon last night. Apparently it has lots of escalators but no lifts (except for freight).

 

[Busaholic]

Turned on a programme about the Pentagon last night. Apparently it has lots of escalators but no lifts (except for freight).

That makes sense, to me anyway. An escalator can always be used manually: no-one need be trapped!

 

[DaleCooper]

That makes sense, to me anyway. An escalator can always be used manually: no-one need be trapped!

I wouldn't recommend walking on your hands on an escalator.

 

[scrapy]

Any escalators in St Helens? Pop 176,000.

 

[Busaholic]

I wouldn't recommend walking on your hands on an escalator.

You know what I meant.

 

[AlterEgo]

Turned on a programme about the Pentagon last night. Apparently it has lots of escalators but no lifts (except for freight).

Indeed, that's true. I had a tour of the Pentagon some years back. It's a surprisingly anodyne building, more so than the MoD's property at Whitehall for example.

 

[krus_aragon]

WALES again , I seem to recall over 25 years ago , friends commenting on the M+S at Bangor having an escalator.

I think your friends were commenting on the escalator at Woolworths, as Bangor only acquired a (small) M&S roughly a decade ago. That Woolworths escalator was the only one I'd encounter regularly when growing up on Anglesey. (M&S at Llandudno had a pair of upward escalators too.) I had a mild fear of falling on downward escalators for many years, as I'd only encounter them every two years when we went abroad on holiday.

Woolworths' site ar Bangor is now a Boots, but they only use one floor as retail space, so Bangor no longer has an escalator.

 

[humbersidejim]

this is esoteric even for this web site!

Haha, this thread has made my day.

I'm now considering a thread for "Britain's remotest cash machine", and maybe "largest village without a Chinese takeaway".

 

[Groningen]

If a shoppingcentre has at least 2 levels than i can not imagine that is has no escalators.