Re: Wheaton Metro Escalator; 2nd Longest Anywhere?

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

"William Pearce" <ben_issacs@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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>     Re escalator lengths in Melbourne. Checking today at about 1345hrs
> (off-peak speeds), the long up-going escalator at Parliament was running
at
> 43.5m/minute, time up was 1min 31.78 secs, giving length of run 66.5m,
> down-going 48m/minute, time down 1 minute 22.44secs, therefore length of
run
> 65.9m, taking average of up and down figures gives 66.2m.
[...]
>   Obviously nowhere near the Wheaton one (Where the hell is Wheaton,
> anyway?)

Not too far off; one of the older posts said Wheaton was 70m.

>   In the Southern Hemisphere, how many u.g. railways are there, probably
> less than ten, so second out of perhaps ten ain't too terrific! But, I
> suppose, better than tenth out of ten.

Just another reason that Australia has the biggest/tallest/highest/longest
[just about everything] in the southern hemisphere.


Daniel
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