Slough, Part 1 - Brunel Bus Station car park lifts.

Slough town centre lifts - part 1

Brunel Bus Station Car Park.

There are three lifts one end, and two on the other.
The main lifts go to a grotty basement, with an underground walkway to the other side of the road towards the Queensmere Shopping Centre and High Street.
The underground walkway appears to be used by the homeless to ask for 'spare' money.

These are Express Lifts, but presumable modernised in the 90s sometime.
On the east side, only 1 out of 3 lifts is working. On the top floor, you can hear typical old Express relay control gear, including floor selector operating - so the modernisation must have just been car interiors (yeah, nice job too!)

On the other side of the car park, the ground floor lift lobby smells like it has been used as a toilet for a long, long time. Even the floor of the lift is sticky - yuch!

Check out the alarm panel above the lifts on the ground floors - there is a small window which produces a mechanical red 'flag' (probably a red disc) when the alarm button is activated. The 'slide to reset' switch is actually mechanical - it just pushes the red flag back, so that only a clear while window can be seen. I suppose this way if the alarm was activated, the red flag would remain even if the power failed until it's manually reset.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Express
• lifts
• lift
• elevator
• car
• park
• multistorey
• motor
• winda
• otis
• kone
• slough
• town
• centre

[MrUNIXman]

This carpark is now closed and taken down bit by bit as they got a new bus station open

[mrmattandmrchay]

@MrUNIXman Yes, I am aware. Probably why the lifts were so old and degraded and no money was spend on them. Glad I was the last to film them.

[erzaeron]

please could somebody help me for a project that i have at school.

i have to show the number in elevator by emulator ore C# code,for example if i'm in the second floor it must to show in PC the number two

[mrmattandmrchay]

@erzaeron I'll help if I can. Please give me more detail. Thanks. Matt

[fletcherhf73]

you make very long videos

[mrmattandmrchay]

I think I'd call it "thorough!".

[MrLeebo123]

and they stink of piss 

[RapidAssistant]

These are exactly the kind of lifts that gave me the creeps when I was a kid! Yet that's where the fun comes from now :)

[MrUNIXman]

@mrmattandmrchay The new bus station is not good as the carpark in my view

[express777100]

ever since otis bought express out, most of the original express lifts have been neglected.

[DELROYJOHNSON73B]

Shouldn't upgraded all those elevators with reports for safety checks the system, before re-use them elevators is will be improvide anyway.

[IchHeisseNinja]

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