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