148 | ₩ɇsⱦfɨɇƚđs Marble Arch - Lambeth North. Also 1972 stock.
Channel: ccityplanner12 :
Date: 03/07/2016

Big Ben has been Turned Off
UPDATE: Lambeth North station's wonderful old Wadsworth lift is being replaced with a stupid lift installed by Kone that uses generic parts. These lifts are almost always worse than the original lift & have a horrible cab design which I hate: it is very dark, everything is grey stainless steel, the door indicators are a boring Dewhurst dot matrix, the operate button is a boring Dewhurst button located in the middle of the lift car away from the door, & they are designed to increase people flow by cramming people in so you have no space.

If I were designing new tube station lifts, they would only have door open & door close buttons (& alarm obviously) & they would use destination dispatch. Basically, because there are only 2 floors, the lift knows which floor you're going to because there's only 1 floor you could be going to. It's like asking "which one of the following is not A: A or B?". The indicators above the doors would be a row of alternating arrows & no entry signs & if the door that side is being used to exit, the arrows will light up. If the door the other side is being used to exit, the no entry signs would light up. No boring dot matrices in this lift. On the outside, the indicator would have a magnet inside a tube & another one outside representing the lift. The magnet inside would be on a cord, so when the lift moves, the cord pulls the magnet, so you can see the lift moving.