Longest Escalators On The Underground 

As someone who gets anxiety in the London tube escalators, I appreciate your list (of stations to avoid).

I'm really looking forward to Least Used Escalators

well, that escalated quickly...

Hello! My name is Geoff Marshall, and today we're gonna be visiting the Least Used Escalator, on the Piccadilly Line.

Fun fact: when the escalators at Tottenham Court were replaced in the late 80s there were specced and supplied with 240V AC motors. Very late in the day it was realised that TCR's plant power was 420V DC - yes, same as positive rail to earth traction power because that's where it was drawn from - so a 240V cable was laid down the running tunnel from Holborn to supply them.

In Helsinki, the longest escalators are at Helsinki Airport railway station. Length 72 meters, vertical rise 31,5 meters.

It's pretty crazy to think that there are miles of escalators in just one city - I reckon if you laid them all out you'd cover the space of a small town.

This is why I love this channel. Who else remembers riding the wooden escalators after Kings Cross and wondering why no-one realised they were death traps? Looks like 16 take the stairs.

Amazing they all are the equivalent to 15 stories!!

And every single one of them is equivalent to 15 storeys.

Náměstí Míru (hope I've spelt that correctly) on the Prague metro is the deepest station in the European Union, 53 metres deep at platform level. Consequently therefore it also has the longest escalator of any underground station in the EU. It takes 2mins 15 seconds to ride from top to bottom or visa versa. When holidaying in Prague this was the nearest station to my hotel and I used it many times whilst there.

Now in my day...There were no escalators at Angel. Just a lift and hundreds of stairs. "Stand clear of the doors". The platform itself was terrifying esp. for me as a kid. There was one narrow platform only and trains ran from both sides.

When I lived in the DC area, my local station was Wheaton, featuring escalators with a single length rise of 35 meters taking 2 minutes, 45 seconds if you don't walk (I always walked, it just got boring otherwise). They are the longest escalators in the western hemisphere.

Longest escalators on the Singapore MRT: 1. Escalator at TE19 Shenton Way (Woodlands North bound) to (Gardens by the Bay bound) about 56m 2. Escalator at CC2 Bras Basah about 42m

In Singapore, the longest escalators are at Bras Basah MRT, at 41.3 meters

You're ascending to heaven essentially if you go up the escalator at Angel. So technically, Angel platforms are hell

I've never been afraid of escalators before until my husband and I went down the escalator in DC at Dupont Circle. We both almost fainted right there holding on to each other. It was so long and high going down, I felt like I was blacking out at one point. Now, I can't even go on the small ones.

In Prague's underground there is a one of the longest escalators in the world on Náměstí Míru station. It takes 2min and 19 sec to reach the platform level.

I suffer from anxiety and I can not deal with these escalators, same with Liverpool Street. No thank you. Thank you for this I know what to avoid.

Fun fact: When I'm late for class I have to run up the longest escalators in the whole on London

Angel only gained the title of longest escalators after the station was rebuilt and it's lifts were replaced in the early 90's. Leicester Square previously had the longest.

Wow what an amazing video!!! thank you so much for making it !! if you combined all the escalators on the network into one giant escalator what would be the vertical gain, how long would the escalator be, how many would you need to get to the summit of mount Everest from basecamp and how long would it take?

Ha ha great fun.. I run up Marble Arch Escalator today and it got me wandering if Holborn was the longest , clearly not "Alternative London ", the book , used to be my favourite survival guide in the student days !

Paula...I loved this escalator ride!

I would've put money on Marble Arch being in the top ten. Me and my mate ran up the stairs once very drunk and had to spend five minutes outside the station getting our breath back and trying not to be sick haha :)

Hi Goeff, Do you know why there's a theodolite mounted on the roof at 0:55? (just where the roof starts to slope up) What does it do there?

I can remember an incredibly long escalator at a Moscow subway station years ago. That one was scary, but at least it was operating. In some deep stations they were not.

I ❤ love these videos! And I love the London Underground!🚇🚈

which is the one with the spiral escalator, and lots of crystal chandeliers in a fairly dark lit area? i thought that was the most interesting underground station, but i forgot where it is!

awesome channel! luvit

The Huangguan Escalator in Chongqing, China is 112m long with a rise of 53m, needing over 2 and a half minutes to complete the journey. It also requires an extra card swipe or ticket of ‎¥2 just to use the escalator between Lianglukou Metro Station on Lines 1 & 3 and Chongqing Railway Station.

How do you get to the secret exit only escalator at Highgate?

Enjoyed the video but I was expecting you to have edited it down to 1m 22s in length as a challenge.

I love the escalators on these historic stations. The rise and decent is much more shallow and more gentle than the escalators here in the U.S. The thing is that these much older stations have the space for these kind of escalators.

I love the London Underground :)

One of the subway stations in my area has escalators that are 58m long, I'm kinda scared of heights, so when I come off, I'm a bit shaky.

Is that speed actually constant? How does loading affect them? Do they manipulate the speed for congestion control?

My local metro station in Prague has a 44m high escalator, the highest in the European union

I'd like you do do the deepest lifts! (don't use a timer for lifts though, as different lifts go different speeds)

Great Video :)

I have a huge fear of heights, and whenever I am in London, i alwyas get super paranoid that the escelator im about to step onto will be one of these huge ones XD

Great and I am going on a school trip soon and one of these stations serve the globe theatre (I feel like that I loose balance when I go up a long escalator)

Hi. Would it be possible to invite the people behind this channel to a nice London restaurant as a way of saying thank you for all those amazing videos that made me love this city?

I actually live in the States, and I live in the Washington, D.C. area. There's a station on our Metro's Red Line, Wheaton station, that has the longest escalators in the Western Hemisphere, at 70.104 meters (not in the world; that title goes to the escalators at Park Pobedy on the Moscow Metro)

@Geoff you should definitely visit Kiev's Maidan station, that's what long escalators look like

From memory the escalators on the Tyne Pedestrian Tunnel (worth a visit to see the two separate tunnels) go deeper than the escalators at Angel. They are also slower!

Marylebone Thanks for showing me this i did not know

How long would it take to ride the steep travelators at Bank Station

So basically, the slowest escalators to reach the top and not the longest, which, as Geoff mentioned, is found at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5.

I did the math, you said that the angles of escalators are 30 degrees or less. You said there is a vertical rise of 27.39m at Angel. A speed of 0.75m/s and 90 seconds to get to the top of the angled slope (Hypotenuse). 0.75 x 90 = 67.5m (Distance = speed x time). So, sin(27.39/67.5)^-1 = 24 degrees. I went to London for a holiday and used angel station to catch the train. I thought that was the steepest escalator out of all of the ones i used on the tube. And you said there are some with 30 degrees? Holy Moly.

Angel is an angel of an escelators

I can understand the importance of keeping these escalators in good running condition. A serious breakdown would make it difficult for older folks like me to exit these stations!

Nice video, but i would have liked to have seen a view of the whole escalator from the top or bottom. Keep up the good work though!

I’ll never forget that video when that guy skied down the escalator at angel

Good video

On a somewhat related note, here is someone skiing down the escalator on Angel Underground station: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rlF4nRUbKmc.html

What is the music to this Geoff?

That moment when it registers just how far underground you actually are.......

No wonder when I went on vacation in the UK the Hyde Park Corner escalators felt so long.

I wonder how toxic/detrimental (especially in the long-term) the air in the London Underground is? If you wipe your face or blow your nose after a deep tube ride (e.g. on the Central, Piccadilly, Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern lines), you'll see the black stuff that I am talking about. What is that black material? Is it carbon particles, metal (e.g. iron) oxide particles coming from the friction of the wheels, brakes, and rail, whenever the train brakes or when you hear that loud squeaky noise at turns? Is down there other toxic stuff which is not visible? I see cyclists with face/breathing masks, however, tube commuters would most probably need those breathing filters a lot more than cyclists on the open roads. What is the effect of being in this environment daily for over 1 hour? Would this potentially lead to cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neurological diseases? What is the effect of these materials accumulated in the body on the embryo and fetus during pregnancy? Lots of questions... This might be a good idea for a research project!

I always thought Wanstead station's was the longest. (In the sixties my friend and I held a race up the down one at Wanstead because we believed it was the longest. I don't think we'll be trying that at Angel, fifty years on!)

Wow... Blown away by this video...

Can you also do the top 10 of the shortest escalators please?

Green park is one my favourite under ground escalators

Geoff, just be glad you don't have to count them! :D

Wasn't one of these escalators used in the James Bond movie Skyfall?

Yes the escalators are longer in central London, some are quite fun to photograph.

What are the longest corridors on the network?

And here comes the Moscow metro with its 120-meter long (84-m high) escalator on Park Pobedy station... A world record by the way.

Always thought Marylebone was quite a way down! #9!

2:02 Northern Line is long too but idk how much time

A view from bottom looking up the escalators and from the top looking down the escalators would have been good.

I concern which is longer. this escalator in UK and the longest subway's escalator in Japan such as Ochanomizu station.

So if all escalators move at a standard speed of 0.75 m/s (45 m/min), shouldn't you be able to calculate how long it takes to ride them by dividing that rate into the known length of the run from public data?

What's the music named?

The music is calm and Good

Funny thing is that no matter how long the escalator is: If you'd take the stair case you would always ascend or descend a staircase equal to a 15 storey building.

You should try calculating how much faster it is if you climb the stairs as they're moving, which most users do.

London “look at this” Ukraine “laughs in 4 minutes”

Cant you feature Marble Arch? You've taken out the escalators and replaced with a staircase?

I went up the Marylebone elevator once and I fell back, it was so embarrassing 😂I almost knocked my grandad down the elevator.

Do people relly just stand on them the whole length of them? Here in Toronto we don't have many long ones bit most poel just walk up them like stairs. Sometimes poel will stand to one side so poel can pass them but the majority of people just walk them. Alos a lot of malls they have replaced stairs with them.

Now, what's the max load can the escalators at Angel take? That's a lot of meat being hoisted without counterweights.

But are they the same speed going down?

I made the mistake of forgetting where i was supposed to be going while at angel station, having to go back up the escalator to call my aunt

What about Tottenham Court Road tube escalators?

whats with that music

Best escalators on the tube - Bethnal Green up until 1987ish, wooden, nothing sticking up in between them, so for idiots like me a giant slide with one hell of a landing.

Longest I've been on in a train station is at the Washington Metro's Rosslyn station. It's 97 feet long from the platform level fare gates to the street. The station is stacked with the city bound platform above the outbound platform.

Was number 3 Blackhorse Road?

you do realize that in most countries in Europe are longer? i.e Kiev station has escalator that goes down from street to station 6 minutes 42 seconds (and that's not the longest, but I haven't use the other one.

Do one on lifts :-)

Angel is the longest and it has 27.39 meters, that’s equivalent to 15 stories right?

I always thought Marylebone was pronounced something like 'marry-le-bon' and have looked down on people that pronounce it 'marley-bone' (just kidding) but now I hear Geoff pronouncing it the second way! Mind blown :)

I remember the old Angel station , and having to climb a very steep staircase.

What about the Waterloo and city line travelator at bank

Wonder if this changes with that gigantic escalator at nine elms

Didn't you say the new Northern line escalators at Tottenham Court Road will be the second longest in the network? You say it's Leicester Square in this video.

...but which are the shortest?

I'll take my stopwatch to measure a few escalators of Moscow Metro. I suspect they'll beat all :) Probably the deepest and longest ones.