Escalator Collection

Londons new amusement: Up and down the escalator
Illustration from 1911 of the first escalators ever installed on the underground, between the District and the Piccadilly line platforms at Earls Court station

Inside the Dome of Discovery, Festival of Britain, London
General view inside the Dome of Discovery, part of the Festival of Britain site on the South Bank, London. This part of the exhibition covered Britains conquest of the physical world through

Escalator Trials
A couple misunderstand the instructions for stepping off a new fangled moving staircase and land in an undignified heap on the floor of the underground station

Waterloo Underground Station - cross-section 1926
Cross section of Waterloo Overground and Underground Stations - showing the big triple escalator descending to the lower platforms. 1926

Cartoon, A Suggestion, London Underground escalator
Cartoon, A Suggestion, a comment on the escalator (moving staircase) at Earls Court Station on the London Underground. Showing people sliding down the parcel chute in the middle

Escalator in Egyptian store, Egypt. Date: 1980s

Hocquarts Escalator
Hocquarts escalator system Date: 1906

Escalator in Action
An escalator in action and a detail of its mechanism as seen in New York Date: 1893

WW2 Christmas card, Keep Going... for a Happy Christmas. The message inside reads: A message of cheer this Christmastide / To help to KEEP GOING along the steps / That lead towards a just

The Atrium in the Earth Galleries
The Atrium, Earth Galleries, at the Natural History Museum, London

Earth Gallery, Natural History Museum, London
Photographing through a revolving globe in the atrium of the Natural History Museums Earth Galleries, part of the Visions of Earth Exhibition in Gallery 60

Inside the new Central Railway Station, Berlin
View inside the new Central Railway Station, Berlin, Germany

Making Escalators 1930S
The construction of the huge escalators leading out of Tottenham Court Road underground (tube) station, central London

Bonmarche / Shop / Escalator
Department store in Paris, France. A view of the centre of the shop

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