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Waygood-Otis Escalators

Tyneside's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain was the Tyne Pedestrian Tunnel. A feature was these wooden-step Waygood-Otis escalators, which were the longest single rise escalators in the world with a vertical rise of 25.9 meters and a length of 61 meters. Another first for Tyneside !

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Uploaded on October 27, 2012
Taken on October 27, 2012