T2 Metro station to get India's tallest escalators

MUMBAI: India's tallest escalators are being installed at Metro 3's international airport terminal (T2) station.
At 19.15 metres each, the eight escalators will surpass the current national record of 15.6m held by the ones at Delhi Metro's Janakpuri-West station. They will also restore Mumbai's status as the city with the country's tallest escalators, a tag it used to have courtesy T2's 11.6 -metre-high pair.

The world's highest escalators measure 69m each, and are in 3 underground stations of the Saint Petersburg Metro in Russia. The title of the world's tallest escalator system goes to Hong Kong's Central Mid-level escalator. At 135m tall, it runs for over 800 metres and comprises 20 escalators and three inclined travelators.
"In all, we are installing 14 escalators at the CSMIA T-2 station of the underground Colaba-Bandra-Seepz corridor," an MMRC spokesperson said. "A 250-ton crane is being used to lower the 8 escalators within confined spaces."