{"id":804902,"date":"2026-10-16T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804902\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:00:14","slug":"major-london-tube-station-could-be-forced-to-close-for-a-year-over-crumbling-escalators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804902\/","title":{"rendered":"Major London Tube station could be forced to close for a year over crumbling escalators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/richard-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Jones<\/a>, Director of Asset Performance Delivery for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/london-underground\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London Underground<\/a>, said: \u201cThe escalators at Angel have been in service for almost 35 years and are becoming less reliable and increasingly difficult to maintain. Their size means renewal or replacement is a challenging, expensive project and we are currently exploring all options possible to extend their working life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Jones, Director of Asset Performance Delivery for London Underground, said: \u201cThe escalators at Angel have been in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[264241,84,27647,253849,59,22514,26851,264243,264242,14751,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-angel-station","tag-business","tag-dlr","tag-freedom-of-information","tag-gb","tag-islington","tag-london-underground","tag-richard-jones","tag-rob-blackie","tag-sadiq-khan","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}