What was your first job? Selling fitted bedwear in Harrods — I was 17 ... I’d install machine guns at the top of every Tube ...

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The MTR Corporation cited safety concerns when it unveiled the initiative on Friday, after 430 accidents involving station escalators were logged in the first nine months of the year. But the ...

The MTR Corporation launched the initiative on Friday as it revealed there were more than 400 accidents recorded in the first nine months of the year involving its station escalators. The company ...

Issues emerged regarding the canopy above the escalators which encountered a leak, with that being the first stage of works to get going. New parts were then ordered after a detailed examination ...

Efforts to promote safe and mindful escalator use are gaining traction across the country, with Saitama Prefecture and the city of Nagoya mandating standing still by ordinance, while the city of ...

However, the MTR has logged 430 accidents in the first nine months of this year that are related to escalator journeys, with approximately 60 percent of them due to people not holding onto ...

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs ... no nuance—betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the transcendent diagonal experience. At first glance, one might mistake them for ...

Just over 100 years ago, before 1911, there were no such things as London Underground escalators and the only way in and out of the tunnels was by hydraulic lifts or by tackling spiral staircases.

Moreover, one traveller mentioned that two escalators were out of service, which led to the staircase heading to check-in desks becoming a "sea of people". Highland Radio's DJ and producer ...

The Justice for Harrods Survivors group said its first letter of claim had been sent to the London department store – labelling it the “beginning of the formal legal process”. The group said the ...