Why do you stand on the right on the tube?

Although they drive on the left and walk on the left on crowded pavements, Londoners stand on the right on Tube station escalators and the reason is historic. The first successful London Tube escalator, at Earls Court Station, required passengers to disembark diagonally to the left.



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