Originally Posted by
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endless piers where the travelators seldom work.
Actually the travelators are often in working order but are either shut down to save on running costs or nobody can be bothered to come round and start them (probably because the somebody who used to do that has been "efficiencied" out of a job).
Went to Manchester for the day a short while ago, in Underground to T1 passage on the outbound an overloaded luggage trolley jammed on the slight rise at the end of the travelator, then overturned. Lots more people coming along behind, I pressed the emergency stop button to deal with it.
Came back after lunch, nobody had got round to starting it again. It's a simple press button inside the control box.