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A fact from Earl's Court tube station appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 September 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a one-legged engineer rode the escalators at Earl's Court tube station on their first day of operation to reassure passengers of their safety?

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I don't think the list of possible routes through the station on the District line (given in the text) is complete. I know you can at least go West Brompton <-> Gloucester Road. Kevin Judson 11:09, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, and theoretically there were Edgware Road - Olympia services at some point - the signs still exist at paddington. I never saw a service doing that route though. Any train venturing north of HighStreetKen must be one with red doors. The wimbledon branch has both red door trains wimbledon-edgware road (Wimbleware line), and White door Wimbledon-Tower Hill/stations-to-Upminster. Trains from West Kensington are always white-door ones going to Tower Hill and beyond - except for engineering works where they terminate on platforms 3 and 4 of HighStreetKen, and very early in the morning White-door trains start form HighStreetKen and head to Richmond/Ealing. Late at night these same trains also go to HighStreetKen. 82.70.146.238 16:57, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bumper Harris

The story about the man with the wooden leg is an urban myth - he may have used the escalator but was not paid by the Underground company to ride it for a week. Christian Wolmar,author of The Subterranean Railway.

CW — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.216.236 (talk) 14:36, 20 April 2006‎

But, but...

Two people claiming to be his descendants...

http://london-underground.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/bumper-harris-was-my-great-great.html

and the LT Museum has pictures of his walking stick and watch, mentioned in the article:

http://www.ltmcollection.org/museum/object/object.html?_IXSR_=JcW9jaTbdnC&_IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=2006/6453&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=bumper%20harris&IXfilterresults=objects&_IXFIRST_=1

Unusual souvenirs : This silver pocket watch was given to Bumper Harris by his wife as a wedding present. He carried it every day of his working life, and wore it on the day he demonstrated London’s first escalators at Earl’s Court station.

The ornamental walking stick was made from the remains of an ancient oak tree. The oak was discovered in 1913 more than 15m (50 feet) beneath Charing Cross Underground station during excavation work to install escalators. The stick was presented to Harris for his role as Clerk of Works on the project. The rest of the tree was used to make furniture for the Admiralty. Reference number: 2006/6453

there is also an entry for a picture of Bumper himself, not shown for "copyright reasons."

The statement in the article that he is likely apocryphal doesn't have a source, and everything I can find says either he was real or that "some dispute his existence" without going into any detail.

I would appreciate expert feedback. Jinnythesquinny (talk) 21:08, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't see the date of CW's comment when I first posted. As it was some years ago, I've gone ahead and updated the entry to state that Bumper actually did demonstrate the escalators, per the LT Museum's description. Pending, of course, anyone finding a better source that proves he was apocryphal. Jinnythesquinny (talk) 13:57, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe not for a week, right enough. But he still needs to be in there coz he did ride it for a day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.230.98 (talk) 14:03, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Escalators

When were escalators introduced? This article seems light on dates. --Tagishsimon (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:58, 4 July 2006

Timetable

I've removed the timetable, as Wikipedia is not a directory (or timetable, travel guide, etc. If there's any problems with it, feel free to discuss them here. — alex.muller (talkpage • contribs) 00:43, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]