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Roland Perry wrote in
: Whereabouts were the BT phones? I can't picture them at all. The concourse at Baker St is the sort of place I might have looked, but not down on the tube platforms. They were mounted on a panel, usually together with a chocolate machine. The phones where the ones that took a green phonecard, and that system went out a good number of years ago. They were quite widespread for a time on the platforms, at least in central London. I don't think they were used a lot, partly because there was no acoustic shielding and the noise level on a tube platform makes converstion hard, but they were quite useful for the 'I'll be home in 40 minutes' calls before we all had mobiles. Peter -- || Peter CS ~ Epsom ~ UK | pjcs02 [at] gmail.com | |
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In message , at 13:25:24 on Tue, 12
Feb 2013, Peter CS remarked: Whereabouts were the BT phones? I can't picture them at all. The concourse at Baker St is the sort of place I might have looked, but not down on the tube platforms. They were mounted on a panel, usually together with a chocolate machine. The phones where the ones that took a green phonecard, and that system went out a good number of years ago. They were quite widespread for a time on the platforms, at least in central London. I don't think they were used a lot, partly because there was no acoustic shielding and the noise level on a tube platform makes converstion hard, but they were quite useful for the 'I'll be home in 40 minutes' calls before we all had mobiles. Not that mobiles work on tube platforms... but making calls like that on Rabbit was one of the attractions. -- Roland Perry |
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"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... Not that mobiles work on tube platforms... but making calls like that on Rabbit was one of the attractions. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Smartphones with Virgin, EE, and Vodafone can be used on well over 100 LUL platforms Ian |
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In message , at 13:58:58 on Tue, 12 Feb
2013, ian remarked: Not that mobiles work on tube platforms... but making calls like that on Rabbit was one of the attractions. Smartphones with Virgin, EE, and Vodafone can be used on well over 100 LUL platforms Used for calls as well as Wifi? Many LUL platforms have always had signal, but have they put microcells on tube platforms? -- Roland Perry |
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:58:58 -0000
"ian" wrote: "Roland Perry" wrote in message ... Not that mobiles work on tube platforms... but making calls like that on Rabbit was one of the attractions. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Smartphones with Virgin, EE, and Vodafone can be used on well over 100 LUL platforms How many of those are above ground? B2003 |
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wrote in message ... Smartphones with Virgin, EE, and Vodafone can be used on well over 100 LUL platforms How many of those are above ground? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Its wifi on the platform see http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news...in-media-99818 Then you use the App http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-...ll-app-1110267 Ian |
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In message , at 15:25:50 on Tue, 12 Feb
2013, ian remarked: Its wifi on the platform see http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news...-virgin-media- 99818 Then you use the App http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-...gin-media-anno unces-free-calls-over-wi-fi-with-smartcall-app-1110267 Assuming you can ever connect to the wifi - which I haven't despite many tries. -- Roland Perry |
No crossed lines at King's Cross
On 12/02/2013 13:58, ian wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... Not that mobiles work on tube platforms... but making calls like that on Rabbit was one of the attractions. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Smartphones with Virgin, EE, and Vodafone can be used on well over 100 LUL platforms Ian With Skype, you mean? |
No crossed lines at King's Cross
On 12/02/2013 12:37, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 12/02/2013 12:09, Peter CS wrote: Mizter T wrote in : On 09/02/2013 14:02, wrote: On 09/02/2013 13:27, Mizter T wrote: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/6538.aspx says... ---quote--- Telephones There are no public telephones at the station. The nearest ones are over the road in the entrance to King's Cross St Pancras Underground. ---/quote--- I appreciate that public payphones are rather 20th century, but I'm still a tad surprised by this. On a related note, are there any subterranean payphones (i.e. deep platform level) on the London Underground network still in existence? If not, when did the last one go? (And apologies for the slightly laboured subject line!) When did the Cadbury vending machines also go? When there was some concern about them potentially catching fire, IIRC. Not something LU takes any chances about these days (quite rightly). I believe one of them actually did catch fire, or at least started to emit smoke, whereupon they were all summarily and rapidly removed. Obviously not the Cadbury vending machines I remember which were purely mechanical. Wires get crossed and can short circuit, however. |
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