Re: Wheaton Metro Escalator; 2nd Longest Anywhere?

[Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>]

William Pearce wrote:
> 
>         Chris, my apologies to you, your 'foot' ruler was more accurate than
> my memory. 

Tis orright!

>   An article in the March 1999 edition of 'Railways Today' describes a visit
> to the three route metro in Kyiv, the capital of the Ukraine, and it said
> that '...one of the central stations (name not given) has the world's
> longest escalator with a rise of 65m ...' . This would give a slant length
> of 130m, over three times that of the Parliament ones!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill.
> 

Blimey, you wouldn't want to suffer acrophobia!