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.


--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

Roland Perry wrote in
news
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

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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

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
Not that mobiles work on tube platforms... but making calls like that on
Rabbit was one of the attractions.
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Smartphones with Virgin, EE, and Vodafone can be used on well over 100 LUL
platforms

Ian

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

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.
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Smartphones with Virgin, EE, and Vodafone can be used on well over 100 LUL
platforms

How many of those are above ground?

B2003

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?

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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

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

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.
--
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Smartphones with Virgin, EE, and Vodafone can be used on well over 100
LUL platforms

Ian
With Skype, you mean?

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.