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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

Busy London station to close for six months as TfL vows to end broken escalators fiasco

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.

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