Escalators 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

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

Harrods advertisement 1939 - new escalators installed
Advertisement for Harrods showing the Escalator Hall from entrance no. 5 door, Hans Crescent. Apparently, these twelve most modern escalators in the World...will take you comfortably

Escalators of the Moscow Metro. Date: 1986

Building Escalators
Men at work on the construction of escalators at Tottenham Court Road underground (tube) Station, central London. Date: 1930s

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

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

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