On Dec 11, 8:18*pm, Bill Borland wrote:
In article
s.com, Dave writes





Hello all, I'm putting together a collection of payphones in london
(and later on around the world). The payphones are each ocompanied by
a picture and a telephone number.

Now, I seem to remember a while ago, seeing payphones at platforms on
deep level underground stations. I had a quick look trough some
piccadilly and bakerloo line stations. But found nothing!

Would anyone know where there would still be a public telephone on the
underground network? If possible, in zone 1 at platform level? Also,
if you know of any payphones situated in unusual places I'd like to
know.

The site is situated athttp://www.payphone.de.vu/if anyones
interested.

Many thanks for any help,

Can't help with the underground, but my local NR station (Bromley
South) has telephones on each of its two island platforms - one
just stuck on a pillar, two others in crude shelters.


Straying further ... what happened to the phonecard payphones on
trains? I remember them on the Norwich line in the 1980s but I don't
know when they were removed. Maybe it was a very brief experiment or
just got overtaken by the use of mobiles. (Phonecards were a ripoff
because they always took one more unit that you intended to use, so I
was glad to see them go.)