Re: (NSW) Wooden escalator treads

["Graham Smith" <dysonsmith@hunterlink.net.au>]

A recent issue of Modern Railways carried a comment that London Underground
was regretting the money it spent replacing wooden escalator treads, which
had been found not to be the major cause of the KX fire, in lieu of spending
that money on more effective fire detection and suppression equipment, and
better arrangements for the evacuation of travellers and staff.

Graham Smith

White Family <whitefamily@pacific.net.au> wrote in message
news:8kmumg$2rd$1@nina.pacific.net.au...
> I saw that at Town Hall No. 5, at the north end, the escalator appeared to
> have wooden cleats on the treads. I could not make out what the base
> structure was constructed from. Wasn't the wooden escalator implicated in
> the causes of the 1987 London Underground fire? How much of it was wood I
> don't know.
>
> There is an interesting Web page on this fire at
> http://www.firetactics.com/KINGS%20CROSS.htm
>
> Geoff
>
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