One of the busiest stations in south London is to close for about six months to replace escalators that have suffered “shocking reliability” problems for at least three years, The Standard can reveal.
Cutty Sark DLR station – a key commuter station for Greenwich residents and the main access point for millions of visitors to the Maritime Greenwich world heritage site – has been blighted for years with one or more of its four escalators out of service.
In a FoI response last month, it said one escalator was working until last July, was taken out of service for a month after an inspection spotted faults, but has been out of service since September “due to an in-service fault with one of the steps at the top of the escalator”.
TfL’s chief operating officer Claire Mann, who has been put in charge of ending the Cutty Sark fiasco, told the TfL board: “It’s been a bit of a sorry tale of one escalator after the other going out, until eventually they all have failed.
TfL said in its FoI response: “All four escalators remain under inspection from our engineering teams, they are identifying all issues with an aim to have a clear plan to return them to back into customer service.
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