Adrian wrote:
Paul Oter ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Tap water does me fine anyway, so if they had tap water available at
stations I'd simply use that.

Can I nominate this for this newsgroups's "best idea of the day" award?

Drinking fountains at main NR and tube stations, where travellers can
have a drink or refil their water bottles. Just like at all BAA
airports.

Hmmm. Would you *really* trust a drinking fountain, considering what your
fellow tube passengers may very well have been doing with it beforehand?

I also can't see the retailers who pay shed loads of money to Network
Rail accepting that one either.

Kevin

Neil Williams wrote:
victormeldrewsyoungerbrother wrote:

just refill a smaller one.

...out of the tap.

The rate things are going, it will be more expensive out of the tap
than bottled water.

Adrian wrote:
Paul Oter ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Tap water does me fine anyway, so if they had tap water available at
stations I'd simply use that.

Can I nominate this for this newsgroups's "best idea of the day" award?

Drinking fountains at main NR and tube stations, where travellers can
have a drink or refil their water bottles. Just like at all BAA
airports.

Hmmm. Would you *really* trust a drinking fountain, considering what your
fellow tube passengers may very well have been doing with it beforehand?

It's not beyond the wit of man to devise a drinking fountain that is
vandal-proof. Especially if it is in a well-supervised location like
right next to the ticket barrier (and I'm referring to main stations
here).

PaulO

Kevin wrote:
Paul Oter ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :


Drinking fountains at main NR and tube stations, where travellers can
have a drink or refil their water bottles. Just like at all BAA
airports.


I also can't see the retailers who pay shed loads of money to Network
Rail accepting that one either.

The retailers who pay shedloads of money to BAA at Heathrow and Gatwick
appear to accept it.

PaulO

On 4 Jul 2006 10:08:02 -0700, "Paul Oter"
wrote:


Adrian wrote:
Paul Oter ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Tap water does me fine anyway, so if they had tap water available at
stations I'd simply use that.

Can I nominate this for this newsgroups's "best idea of the day" award?

Drinking fountains at main NR and tube stations, where travellers can
have a drink or refil their water bottles. Just like at all BAA
airports.

Hmmm. Would you *really* trust a drinking fountain, considering what your
fellow tube passengers may very well have been doing with it beforehand?

It's not beyond the wit of man to devise a drinking fountain that is
vandal-proof. Especially if it is in a well-supervised location like
right next to the ticket barrier (and I'm referring to main stations
here).

Many older drinking fountains were designed as "non-contact" devices
which would have required a deal of intent for contamination to be
caused.
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:46:51 +0100 someone who may be Edward Cowling
London UK wrote this:-

We're all getting too damn soft and the media don't help. When I was
a kid we just called it hot weather and got on with it. Now there are
endless announcements to carry water and if you believe the news
we're all about to suffer heat stroke.

As others have said, this is the fashion for "mineral" water.
Personally if I want water I turn on the tap and water comes out. I
did this when I lived in London too.

As for shutting down some lines, that would simply increase the
temperature in the tunnels. The trains are much of the ventilation
system and they do a reasonable job of keeping the tunnels
reasonably cool.

As for high temperatures in tunnels when the trains stop running, a
member of my family gave up her job in a florist in Covent Garden
(this would probably have been in the late 1950s) after being caught
in a few breakdowns on peak hour trains. People probably whined less
then.


--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

"Paul Oter" wrote:

Can I nominate this for this newsgroups's "best idea of the day" award?
Drinking fountains at main NR and tube stations, where travellers can
have a drink or refil their water bottles. Just like at all BAA
airports.

I think I'm right in saying that cups of water are available free from
the buffets on trains in Sweden.... so why not here?

David Hansen wrote:

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:46:51 +0100 someone who may be Edward Cowling
London UK wrote this:-

We're all getting too damn soft and the media don't help. When I was
a kid we just called it hot weather and got on with it. Now there are
endless announcements to carry water and if you believe the news
we're all about to suffer heat stroke.

As others have said, this is the fashion for "mineral" water.
Personally if I want water I turn on the tap and water comes out. I
did this when I lived in London too.

Last I checked there weren't any taps on the underground platforms, or
on underground trains. If you're stuck on a tube train in very hot
weather, water definitely helps. I think it's a sensible precaution on
the tube in hot weather.

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usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org

ab wrote:

"Paul Oter" wrote:

Can I nominate this for this newsgroups's "best idea of the day" award?
Drinking fountains at main NR and tube stations, where travellers can
have a drink or refil their water bottles. Just like at all BAA
airports.

I think I'm right in saying that cups of water are available free from
the buffets on trains in Sweden.... so why not here?

Because it's more important that people buy crap chocolate on the tube
platforms.

--
David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org

ab ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

I think I'm right in saying that cups of water are available free from
the buffets on trains in Sweden.... so why not here?

Ummm, lemme guess... No buffets on tube trains?

I'll bet that if you went to the buffet car on an intercity and asked for a
glass of tap water you'd get one for free.