The Tube Going Underground.

[Caran]

Just watching this. I was intrigued as to how this sideways lift would work.
It doesn't seem to go sideways. It goes up but at an angle. Picture a lift fixed onto the site of a flight of stairs. It goes up at angle, but up not sideways.
Trivial I know but hey ho!

[Buenchico]

Isn't that what good old-fashioned cliff lifts do?

[Buenchico]

That post would have made more sense with the video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVm3gAYfqho

[Mamyalynne]

This one Caran?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxScXvX1Dv4

[Buenchico]

PS:
Have you ever been in a Paternoster lift (which doesn't stop). They're quite fun but I always feel a bit nervous in them!

This one's at my alma mater; I remember it fondly ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-RdjCll0w

[Caran]

Chris you know very well I am not good with technology. I wouldn't knowwhereto start to do that.
It took me three weeks to master tinypic.com.

[Mamyalynne]

I think Chris meant his own post.

[Caran]

Never heard of a paternoster lift.

[Mamyalynne]

Is that not the one I posted up there^ - not watched tonight's episode yet.

[Buenchico]

Yes, Chris did mean his own post!

Thank you for finding the relevant video, Mamyalynne, which confirms that the 'cliff lift' principle is used on the Underground.

Trying to step into, or out of, a Paternoster lift is a bit tricky because you need to work out where the floor will be in a second or so's time!

[Caran]

That's the one Mamya but they referred to it as a sideways lift.

[Mamyalynne]

With my poor vision and my walking stick I'd be needing the Paternoster said over me if I tried to use one Chris.