Which station has the longest escalator in London's Tube network?
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,
Wanstead tube station wooden escalator until 2003, one of the last Tube stations to do so. The station has been extensively refurbished since 2006, including the replacement of the original platform wall tiling, which had become badly damaged. The station is served by London Buses routes 66, 101, 145, 308, W12, W13 and W14, and also by night routes N8 and N55. Wanstead tube station Wanstead is a London Underground station in Wanstead in London, England, on the Hainault loop of the Central line. It is in Travelcard Zone 4. Construction of the station had started in the 1930s, but was delayed by