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pixiewize | 18:18 Mon 05th Mar 2007 | Travel
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does anyone know where i could find a list of london underground stations accessible by any means other than escalators; fixed steps would be fine.
i am taking my mum to london soon and she has a fear of escalators so it would be good to know of the stations she could use. i know the disabled access ones but they obviously dont tell me the staions with steps.
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The Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City and District lines are subsurface, which means they will be accessed by steps. I can't think of any stations on these lines with escalators though there could be the odd one. It will be a short one if there is.

All other lines are tube lines which are in the centre of London deep below the surface and accessed mainly by escalator or occasionally by lift. Some of the time they will have stairs as well - the ones with a lift have a spiral staircase that winds around the lift shaft and some but not all of the ones with escalators have a set of stairs between the up and down escalators.
none of the sites that contain "accessibility" information carry information that would completely answer your query -

if you know where you want to go, you could try ringing the 24hour travel number 020 7222 1234 about facilities at individual stations.
There are two maps here under the Accessable Tube Maps heading that may help.

They list all the stations and how you can access them, steps up from platfrom to train and so on.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/maps/

I found them by searching in Google under London Underground Disabled (I know you mother is not disabled but I thought there HAD to be advice for people in wheelchairs as the use of escalators also applies to them).

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