Escalator 44


Escalator 44 :

Escalators: Superlatives: (2) Longest Individual Escalators: (2. 1) Asia and Europe: Several "metro" or "subway" systems in Central and Eastern Europe feature very long escalators. In the Park Pobedy station of the Moscow Metro, opened in 2003, the escalators are 126. 8 m (416 ft) (63. 4 m/208 ft high), or 740 steps, long, and take nearly three minutes to transit. Deep underground stations in St. Petersburg have escalators up to approximately 142 m (466 ft) long (71 m/233 ft high). The Kiev Metro Kreschatik station's lower-level second exit escalator (a type ЛТ-2, circa 1965), lifts riders 216 feet (66 m), or 743 steps, up a 432-foot (132 m) -long incline. The longest escalator in Prague is at the Náměstí Míru station at 290 feet (88 m). The longest escalator of a European shopping mall is at MyZeil, Frankfurt, Germany, with a length of 150 feet (46 m). The tallest escalator on the London Underground system is at Angel station with a length of 197 feet (60 m), and a vertical rise of 90 feet (27 m). The longest wooden escalators in the United Kingdom are at the Tyne Tunnel, with a length of 200 feet (61 m). (See above). The longest escalator on the Stockholm Metro, and in Western Europe, is at Västra skogen with a length of 220 feet (67 m) and in Helsinki Metro at Kamppi station with a length of 210 feet (64 m). The largest "single truss escalator" is in the Bentall Centre in Kingston upon Thames in Greater London, UK. It connects the ground floor with the second floor with only top and bottom supports. The longest escalator in Bangkok, Thailand and Southeast Asia is in Bangkok Metro's Si Lom Station. It connects the concourse level with platform 1 which in turn connects to Hua Lam Phong. It is 43 m (141 ft) in length and about 20 m (66 ft) in depth

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