London Underground and the mechanisms are regularly degreased to lower the potential for fires. The only wooden escalator not to be replaced was at Greenford station, which remained until October 2015 when TfL replaced it with the first incline lift on the UK transport network. There are 426 escalators on the London Underground system and the longest, at , is at Angel. The shortest, at Stratford, gives a vertical rise of . There are 184 lifts, and numbers have increased in recent years because of investment making tube stations accessible. Over 28 stations will have lifts installed over the next 10 years,
Bow Road tube station Bow Road tube station Bow Road is a London Underground station in Bow, East End of London, England. It is on the District and Hammersmith & City lines. The station is interlinked as an out of station interchange (OSI) with Bow Church station on the Docklands Light Railway which is about away via Bow Road. The two Bow stations are classed as a single station for ticketing purposes as well as on tube maps but both managed separately. The station was opened in 1902 by the Whitechapel and Bow Railway (which was later incorporated into the District line), with the