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- This historic Escalator has been replaced. It was the only one left.
Historic escalators are rare. This is simply because they run non stop. I only know of a very few surviving old escalators from the 1970s, they are rare, but this one isn't 1970s, it is 1930s! This is astonishingly rare, not only rare but it is the last one. It was the oldest escalator in London and is the only surviving wooden escalator in London. It was built by Waygood-Otis in the 1930s.
I remember these from late eighties / early nineties - they had character and a distinct noise when they were working. Good thing you managed to catch this on video before they were all gone.
I remember a train station in Sydney (Town Hall and Wynyard) had them up until about 10 years or so ago. The looks of them makes me cringe since I learned that these old wooden escalators are extremely dangerous for service dogs, it could damage paws and rip nails and whatnot out. In that aspect I’m glad they’ve been upgraded. The wood was saved and turned into a rather cool looking sculpture that I believe hangs above the new replacement escalators. I haven’t been back since they were removed, but I miss Sydney dearly, and shall return soon enough.
They were lethal with the wide wooden grate of the steps meeting up to the large metal prongs at the ends of the escalator.
Doesn’t sound nice
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We'll always have the wooden escalator at the original Macy's. Make a note of that if you ever come to New York and do more of those "lift tours" that I love so much.
That was the only one i've ever seen so far.
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The ones in Chicago are nice too
I didn't expect there are still some of those wooden escalators in service, nice!
Well around 2 years ago it became an incline lift that I've ridden once as some of my family live there
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It's a shame this has been replaced after so long in service. It's amazing that the parts were still available to keep it running. I can only imagine how many bearings and step treads this must have gone through in its existance. I hadn't realised a wooden escalator had lasted until as recentmy as this. I imagine after kings cross it's not something LU would have publicised too much. Just shows though that with the correct safety procedures in place that it was still perfectly serviceable.
I don't think they replaced many parts at all! It just looked like they either fabricated new parts or bought new parts with the same size to keep it running. It is very reliable after all and waygood otis lifts still exist if they haven't already been replaced or modernised
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R.I.P Wooden Escalators 1930 - 2018
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Wait- Wooden-escalators were First? I thought they were just made as a little spoof. That's weird :)
King Cross 1930-1987
@@alpzepta The kings cross fire was in 1987.
That's when things were built to last.
The Wooden Escalator Didn't last at Kings Cross did it, they are fire Hazard, One drop of a cigarette and boom.
+Scott Peacock the fire wouldn't of been so damaging If maintenance under the escalator was good. there was supposedly anniversary build up of gunk and oil under the escalator that caused the fire.
Also gradual wear is inevitable. So no, this isn't built to last lmao
Neglect and complacency caused the Kings Cross fire.
Fuck off with that shit. They were shit. Rose tinted bollocks from someone who didn't live through it.
There was a running wooden escalator at the original Eaton's Department store in downtown Cleveland, Ohio about 30 years ago when we visited the city. It gave me a really weird, but cool vibe seeing a part of older history. I first saw one like it when my parent's took my sister and I to Eaton's in downtown Toronto back in 1972. I did not see another escalator like that one again until 1995 when my wife and I decided to visit Cleveland , Ohio that year. It blew my mind to see a part of history that I knew so well, as we always went to the shopping malls/department stores as kids on the weekends just for a few hours of diversionary fun away from the house on the weekends. It's kind of a bittersweet feeling to see something from so long ago when I was a kid, and contrast it with how differently things look now in the malls/department stores. I really miss those much simpler, happier times. There was still hope and innocence back then! Life just felt much more positive then, like tomorrow would be a better day - - and it usually was. And those amazing feel good 70s sitcoms, game shows and movies, god, don't even get me started. It's all crap now - - most of it! So I've kind of become stuck in that marvellous decade. This time we are living in now just really depresses me in so many ways.
I used to live in the Greater Cleveland area before moving to Seattle last year, nice!
Remember these as a kid ,used to frighten the life out of me , getting on and getting off ,usually suspended in the air by one arm from my mum !
They should have put this in a museum.
The incline lift is pretty awesome though.
Sydney used to have wooden escalators in their underground stations such as Town Hall and Wynyard. However they are gone now and replaced by modern escalators.
The old wooden escalators were not forgotten though and the steps were used as art work
Moscow metro still has a lot of 70s escalators and older. Best are at central stations of line 7, steps look similarly, but made of something like plastic and side panels are still woodgrain plastic, these look awesome
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This may have even been one of the last ones in the world
Wooden escalators are still in service on ex-soviet metros
@@benolifts No those aren't wooden
VERY impossible to find a 1930s escalator in the U.S! Great find!!
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Come visit Rotterdam, at the Maastunnel there are still wooden escalators.
In fact, they just finished renovating.
Waygood-Otis with a globe that says Waygood-Oits XD
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There is actually one other wooden escalator on the tube, at Alperton station on the Piccadilly line. However it isn't in use and is locked away behind a secret door.
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wow that really a shame, even if they turned it off and make it into stair it would of been cool to keep
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@@quittance When it was left unchecked yes,but with the proper maintenance and care even the oldest machines can run factory-fresh.
Part of the reason why London Underground replaced their wooden escalators was because of the big fire that happened in 1987. I think it was started by someone dropping a lit cigarette butt on the escalator, which caught fire. After that, smoking was banned and the wooden escalators were replaced.
Correct Mr.D1980 but if my memory serves me correctly I am sure someone discarded a lit cigarette in between the wooden stairs & frame which ignited grease & rubbish which had accumulated underneath the escalator resulting in that devastating fire at Kings Cross St Pancreas Underground Station back in 1987. I do remember it quite well even if I was 12 back then!
Correct me if I am wrong please.
@@matthewvwuk I'd say you're right. I wasn't born at the time, so you would probably know more about it than I would, from watching the BBC and ITN News and listening to it on the radio. I remember seeing what happened in a documentary about the massive fire in Kings Cross St.Pancreas back in 1987. It's sad though that they ripped out these old classic escalators form the early 20th century. Also, it's amazing how Britain had escalators long before Ireland did. Here in Ireland, we didn't have escalators until 1963, which were installed at Roches Stores on Henry Street in Dublin City (Which is now Debenhams). I think they were either Thyssen or Marriot & Scott escalators but I am not certain. Most places didn't have them until the 1980's.
Quite a lot of people died in that fire in the London underground
@@PeterShaw-lb9lt That's why they gradually replaced them with steel / metal escalators after that disaster.
I remember the wooden escalators at Marylebone, I thought they'd all been replaced by now.
Can you remember the incline of it too. Seemed really steep when I went in it as a child!
why did they remove it, that is a wonderful piece of history.
Unfortunately these were burned to the ground. Now there’s no wooden escalators left in the UK as far as I know
That is not true. The kings cross fire happened in 1987, and this video was recorded in 2013. As this is an outside station the escalator was kept for heritage. It was then removed for a trial of a new funicular that was built in its place.
Oh, they planning to make incline lift. Nice
Woah! Amazing!
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what they should have done... installed the incline elevator where the "new" escalator is being built now and preserved the wooden one
They should've built new escalators along the sides and leave the wooden ones as steps.
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@@kylethemadman1 I've ridden it once and it is very slow. The only good thing is that it goes downwards and that it is an incline lift that goes diagonal. I've been in Greenford by car many times but a few times in the tube.
They have a lot of these escalators in Macy*s Herald Square in NYC. They have a lot of character to them and they are original from 1902
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Wood escalator nice
There’s wooden escalators Still at Macy’s Harold Square, New York City
There is a wooden escalator in Toronto Ontario Canada shut down but still in place
Wow and that escalator sure went through alot during its 100 years in operation it has survived ww2 and the cold war during the 40s or 50s
It survived WW2 and Hitler, but it didn't manage to survive the funicular.
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I know of one on the Paris Metro at Porte de Lilas northbound exit of the 3bis metro line. The only time I remember it was from March 2000, and I do not know if it was replaced with an all-metal escalator.
As for London, I remember as a child in the 1970s, that the Northern Line had the most wooden escalators and 1938 tube stock. Other lines had more modern metal escalators and tube stock from year 1959 or newer.
It's rare to see the wooden escalator in Japan.
I thought these were all ripped out after the kIngs Cross fire
Was this just destroyed then?
I think the only company that makes really good escalators in the modern day is both otis and kone but I dont think otis is making very many escalators anymore
And it had to be ruined because people couldn't help but to light their cigarettes on it.
When was it gone
2013: Still there
Now: Already Replaced :(
they stripped out and replaced all wooden escalators in 70s, as they were the cause of the kings cross fire after a lit cigarette was dropped inside the runway.
brian lee no it was a match they said that was used Light a cigarette
Still rather have the 30's technology.
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There is a macys store in new york that has otis wooden escalators
Greenford?
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Sad isn’t it, in Japan they have made escalators that go up and then into a walkway and up again there every where, but the the city I live in about 50 escalators break down a mouth so somthing but a lot
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Bloody matches got rid of wooden escalators (KX fire)
Not this one. This one was kept for heritage. But then they changed their minds and replaced it with a funicular.
I believe this one was kept because it was not in a station that is underground, so not much of a fire risk. I am not too sure why they changed their mind as they had deliberately kept this one.
a wood escalator looks like at Macy's
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Nice video of a wooden escalator.
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Wooden escalator no thanks! Forensic files “flashover” was scary as shit. I would never go near one after watching that episode.
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I never seen in person and it's very super rare escalator but now it's bye bye to me ;-;
At Greenford well now gone now
What station was this at?
Greenford
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There should be a lift and escalator museum
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its old escalators
I thought it had been made compulsory to replace all of these after the fire
What station?
greenford I think. it's where they put the 1st incline lift on the TfL network
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He only went on the up escalator not the down escalator! How disappointing 👎🏻
There is no down escalator.
the down escalators are boring metal ones back then
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