moving walkway
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Noun
[edit]moving walkway (plural moving walkways)
- (US) A slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally or on an incline in a similar manner to an escalator.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 110–111:
- The slope [at Bank station, Waterloo & City] was always resented, especially on Monday morning, and it was supplemented by the installation of the Underground's first Trav-o-lator - or moving walkway - in 1960.
- 2022 November 16, “Network News: Bank's moving walkways open”, in RAIL, number 970, page 12:
- Interim London Transport Commissioner Andy Lord and Transport for London Chief Capital Officer Stuart Harvey opened two new 100-metre moving walkways and three new escalators connectting the Northern and Central lines at Bank station on October 28.
Synonyms
[edit]- travelator (UK), moving sidewalk (US), moving pavement, walkalator
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally
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