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Old February 12th 13, 09:57 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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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,
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On 09/02/2013 13:27, Mizter T wrote:
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/6538.aspx
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---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

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