On 12/02/2013 20:07, wrote:
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...

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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.
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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.

Agreed but I was thinking of the older generation of machines that
dispensed a large bar[1] of Dairy Milk by purely mechanical means for a
florin.

[1] Or two if you had the knack and dexterity[2]

[2] Alledgedly

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On 12/02/2013 14:22, Roland Perry wrote:

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?

No microcells - ian's referring to making calls via wifi.