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e27002 aurora
2016-04-01 07:17:26 UTC
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<http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/01/londons-jubilee-line-will-be-
renamed-to-celebrate-pride/>
"Mayor of London Boris Johnson told PinkNews: "I am thrilled to
welcome the Pride line to London’s thriving transport network,
where it will serve as a reminder of the struggle of LGBT people
across our great capital."
April 1, already.
Roland Perry
2016-04-01 07:25:48 UTC
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Post by e27002 aurora
<http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/01/londons-jubilee-line-will-be-
renamed-to-celebrate-pride/>
"Mayor of London Boris Johnson told PinkNews: "I am thrilled to
welcome the Pride line to London’s thriving transport network,
where it will serve as a reminder of the struggle of LGBT people
across our great capital."
April 1, already.
No shit, Sherlock.

"The Pride line will be officially named in a ceremony on April 31."
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Roland Perry
Arthur Figgis
2016-04-01 18:17:57 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by e27002 aurora
<http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/01/londons-jubilee-line-will-be-
renamed-to-celebrate-pride/>
"Mayor of London Boris Johnson told PinkNews: "I am thrilled to
welcome the Pride line to London’s thriving transport network,
where it will serve as a reminder of the struggle of LGBT people
across our great capital."
April 1, already.
No shit, Sherlock.
"The Pride line will be officially named in a ceremony on April 31."
I was quite excited when one of the candidates for mayor said they would
provide a subsidy for London Pride. It would have saved me a fortune.
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK
d***@yahoo.co.uk
2016-04-01 21:48:37 UTC
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On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 19:17:57 +0100, Arthur Figgis
Post by Arthur Figgis
Post by Roland Perry
Post by e27002 aurora
April 1, already.
No shit, Sherlock.
"The Pride line will be officially named in a ceremony on April 31."
I was quite excited when one of the candidates for mayor said they would
provide a subsidy for London Pride. It would have saved me a fortune.
Did it give you Fuller figure?

G.Harman
Michael R N Dolbear
2016-04-02 01:06:41 UTC
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Another April London Underground item

http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/little-waitrose.html

Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch on
the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly line.

The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a unique
retail space for TfL customers.
--
Mike D
Roland Perry
2016-04-02 07:39:33 UTC
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Post by Michael R N Dolbear
Another April London Underground item
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/little-waitrose.html
Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch
on the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly
line.
The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a
unique retail space for TfL customers.
Joking apart, I remember when there were shops (well, kiosks) on the
platform at several UndergrounD stations.
--
Roland Perry
Someone Somewhere
2016-04-02 08:01:36 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by Michael R N Dolbear
Another April London Underground item
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/little-waitrose.html
Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch
on the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly
line.
The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a
unique retail space for TfL customers.
Joking apart, I remember when there were shops (well, kiosks) on the
platform at several UndergrounD stations.
There still are - Embankment, Monument and Hammersmith come to mind
immediately.
James Heaton
2016-04-02 10:47:00 UTC
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Post by Someone Somewhere
Post by Roland Perry
Post by Michael R N Dolbear
Another April London Underground item
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/little-waitrose.html
Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch
on the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly
line.
The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a
unique retail space for TfL customers.
Joking apart, I remember when there were shops (well, kiosks) on the
platform at several UndergrounD stations.
There still are - Embankment, Monument and Hammersmith come to mind
immediately.
Liverpool St Circle line last time I was there?

James
h***@yahoo.co.uk
2016-04-02 12:23:46 UTC
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Post by Someone Somewhere
Post by Roland Perry
Post by Michael R N Dolbear
Another April London Underground item
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/little-waitrose.html
Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch
on the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly
line.
The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a
unique retail space for TfL customers.
Joking apart, I remember when there were shops (well, kiosks) on the
platform at several UndergrounD stations.
There still are - Embankment, Monument and Hammersmith come to mind
immediately.
The kiosks at Monument aren't behind the line, however, whereas the two
at Embankment on the District line are.
Roland Perry
2016-04-02 12:36:56 UTC
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Post by Someone Somewhere
Post by Roland Perry
Post by Michael R N Dolbear
Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch
on the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly
line.
The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a
unique retail space for TfL customers.
Joking apart, I remember when there were shops (well, kiosks) on the
platform at several UndergrounD stations.
There still are - Embankment, Monument and Hammersmith come to mind
immediately.
The kiosks at Monument aren't behind the line, however, whereas the two
at Embankment on the District line are.
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm only interested in kiosks on platforms,
"airside" of the ticket barriers.
--
Roland Perry
Someone Somewhere
2016-04-02 12:46:33 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by h***@yahoo.co.uk
Post by Someone Somewhere
Post by Roland Perry
Post by Michael R N Dolbear
Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch
on the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly
line.
The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a
unique retail space for TfL customers.
Joking apart, I remember when there were shops (well, kiosks) on the
platform at several UndergrounD stations.
There still are - Embankment, Monument and Hammersmith come to mind
immediately.
The kiosks at Monument aren't behind the line, however, whereas the
two at Embankment on the District line are.
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm only interested in kiosks on platforms,
"airside" of the ticket barriers.
Which all of those 3 are - ok, at Monument they are set back by the DLR
stairs but they are within sight line of the platforms, level with them
and with no encumberences between them.

Embankment and Hammersmith they are very much on the platforms themselves.
h***@yahoo.co.uk
2016-04-02 12:46:44 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by h***@yahoo.co.uk
Post by Someone Somewhere
Post by Roland Perry
Post by Michael R N Dolbear
Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch
on the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly
line.
The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a
unique retail space for TfL customers.
Joking apart, I remember when there were shops (well, kiosks) on the
platform at several UndergrounD stations.
There still are - Embankment, Monument and Hammersmith come to mind
immediately.
The kiosks at Monument aren't behind the line, however, whereas the
two at Embankment on the District line are.
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm only interested in kiosks on platforms,
"airside" of the ticket barriers.
Yes, there is. I just recalled that it is on the westbound track.

The westbound platform appears to be the only one on the LUL that uses a
single-lense platform repeater.
Bibo ergo sum
2016-04-02 08:56:33 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by Michael R N Dolbear
Another April London Underground item
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/little-waitrose.html
Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch
on the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly
line.
The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a
unique retail space for TfL customers.
Joking apart, I remember when there were shops (well, kiosks) on the
platform at several UndergrounD stations.
And a bar on the outer-rail circle platform at Liverpool Street.
h***@yahoo.co.uk
2016-04-02 12:20:27 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by Michael R N Dolbear
Another April London Underground item
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/little-waitrose.html
Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch
on the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly
line.
The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a
unique retail space for TfL customers.
Joking apart, I remember when there were shops (well, kiosks) on the
platform at several UndergrounD stations.
What about the two on each side of the District Line.

I remember that Cadbury had chocolate machines at most stations, though
they seem to have removed them about 10 years ago. Why was that?
Roland Perry
2016-04-02 12:38:31 UTC
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I remember that Cadbury had chocolate machines at most stations, though
they seem to have removed them about 10 years ago. Why was that?
Removed longer ago than that, I think.

Even when they worked, I suspect they probably vended more chocolate
bars to people with the necessary size of washers, rather than UK
coinage.
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Roland Perry
h***@yahoo.co.uk
2016-04-02 12:49:14 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by h***@yahoo.co.uk
I remember that Cadbury had chocolate machines at most stations,
though they seem to have removed them about 10 years ago. Why was that?
Removed longer ago than that, I think.
Even when they worked, I suspect they probably vended more chocolate
bars to people with the necessary size of washers, rather than UK coinage.
I do remember that those machines appeared to often dispense more than
you purchased. I did not mind that.

One thing that I did not understand was why they removed the payphones
on the platforms.
Roland Perry
2016-04-02 14:14:45 UTC
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One thing that I did not understand was why they removed the payphones
on the platforms.
Too much maintenance compared to the takings, I expect. Their demise was
probably hastened by the project to give Rabbit coverage to all stations
(in much the same way 20yrs later Virgin wifi).

That Rabbit didn't last more than a couple of years is an unintended
outcome.
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Roland Perry
bob
2016-04-03 10:14:51 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
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One thing that I did not understand was why they removed the payphones
on the platforms.
Too much maintenance compared to the takings, I expect. Their demise was
probably hastened by the project to give Rabbit coverage to all stations
(in much the same way 20yrs later Virgin wifi).
That Rabbit didn't last more than a couple of years is an unintended
outcome.
If it's a choice between using a payphone in the station and waiting till
you reach a landline at your destination, I can see the payphone being
used. If it's a case of just waiting until you get above ground and using
your mobile, I expect people would rather wait. I think there is also an
element that most people have, for practical purposes, "forgotten" about
payphones, in that if they can't use their mobile it doesn't occur to them
to look for a payphone.

Robin
h***@yahoo.co.uk
2016-04-03 10:33:17 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
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One thing that I did not understand was why they removed the payphones
on the platforms.
Too much maintenance compared to the takings, I expect. Their demise was
probably hastened by the project to give Rabbit coverage to all stations
(in much the same way 20yrs later Virgin wifi).
That Rabbit didn't last more than a couple of years is an unintended
outcome.
If it's a choice between using a payphone in the station and waiting till
you reach a landline at your destination, I can see the payphone being
used. If it's a case of just waiting until you get above ground and using
your mobile, I expect people would rather wait. I think there is also an
element that most people have, for practical purposes, "forgotten" about
payphones, in that if they can't use their mobile it doesn't occur to them
to look for a payphone.
Robin
I think that you are probably correct.
Roland Perry
2016-04-03 10:38:45 UTC
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Post by bob
Post by Roland Perry
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One thing that I did not understand was why they removed the payphones
on the platforms.
Too much maintenance compared to the takings, I expect. Their demise was
probably hastened by the project to give Rabbit coverage to all stations
(in much the same way 20yrs later Virgin wifi).
That Rabbit didn't last more than a couple of years is an unintended
outcome.
If it's a choice between using a payphone in the station and waiting till
you reach a landline at your destination, I can see the payphone being
used. If it's a case of just waiting until you get above ground and using
your mobile, I expect people would rather wait.
I got a Rabbit phone so that I could ring up people when I was in London
and let them know if I was going to be late for a meeting, and I would
invariably be travelling around by tube. Previously I'd had an analogue
mobile, but when it broke down I hadn't been using it enough to justify
replacing it.

When Rabbit was withdrawn, one of the compensation packages on offer was
a free Orange phone, although it was still on a contract at £30/month.
The networks weren't subsidising the phones from the monthly contract
back then.
Post by bob
I think there is also an element that most people have, for practical
purposes, "forgotten" about payphones, in that if they can't use their
mobile it doesn't occur to them to look for a payphone.
One of the reasons I didn't use payphones much was they often had
queues, and almost always stank of urine or worse.
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Roland Perry
tim...
2016-04-03 11:31:00 UTC
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Post by bob
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One thing that I did not understand was why they removed the payphones
on the platforms.
Too much maintenance compared to the takings, I expect. Their demise was
probably hastened by the project to give Rabbit coverage to all stations
(in much the same way 20yrs later Virgin wifi).
That Rabbit didn't last more than a couple of years is an unintended
outcome.
If it's a choice between using a payphone in the station and waiting till
you reach a landline at your destination, I can see the payphone being
used. If it's a case of just waiting until you get above ground and using
your mobile, I expect people would rather wait.
I got a Rabbit phone so that I could ring up people when I was in London
and let them know if I was going to be late for a meeting, and I would
invariably be travelling around by tube. Previously I'd had an analogue
mobile, but when it broke down I hadn't been using it enough to justify
replacing it.
When Rabbit was withdrawn, one of the compensation packages on offer was a
free Orange phone, although it was still on a contract at £30/month. The
networks weren't subsidising the phones from the monthly contract back
then.
Oh yes they were.

It was much more necessary then because the entry price for buying a phone
was beyond the "utility" value that a domestic customer would pay

tim
Roland Perry
2016-04-03 11:52:58 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
When Rabbit was withdrawn, one of the compensation packages on offer
was a free Orange phone, although it was still on a contract at
£30/month. The networks weren't subsidising the phones from the
monthly contract back then.
Oh yes they were.
It was much more necessary then because the entry price for buying a
phone was beyond the "utility" value that a domestic customer would pay
They weren't selling many to domestic customers (if you mean consumers)
back then, because the industry's main market was companies. Calls cost
typically 50p/minute.

Orange and One-to-One started opening it up to a wider audience with
prices which appealed more to the masses, but the Nokia Orange in 1994
was still £299 to buy.
--
Roland Perry
tim...
2016-04-03 16:21:58 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by tim...
Post by Roland Perry
When Rabbit was withdrawn, one of the compensation packages on offer was
a free Orange phone, although it was still on a contract at £30/month.
The networks weren't subsidising the phones from the monthly contract
back then.
Oh yes they were.
It was much more necessary then because the entry price for buying a phone
was beyond the "utility" value that a domestic customer would pay
They weren't selling many to domestic customers (if you mean consumers)
back then, because the industry's main market was companies. Calls cost
typically 50p/minute.
There was still a market in selling to "normal" people, just not to be used
for casual conversations
Post by Roland Perry
Orange and One-to-One started opening it up to a wider audience with
prices which appealed more to the masses, but the Nokia Orange in 1994 was
still £299 to buy.
I would bet that they was still a subsidised price :-(


tim

tim...
2016-04-02 08:57:22 UTC
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Post by Michael R N Dolbear
Another April London Underground item
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/little-waitrose.html
Waitrose has announced that it will be the first supermarket to launch on
the TfL network by taking over a disused station on the Piccadilly line.
because you posted it a day late I hade taken my "fool me" hat off

and I thought you were posting a genuine story
Post by Michael R N Dolbear
The concourse at Down Street station will be redeveloped to create a
unique retail space for TfL customers.
And I couldn't work this bit out - how can it be just for TfL passengers if
it's at a disused station?

Until I read the full article :-(

tim
Bibo ergo sum
2016-04-02 08:55:40 UTC
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On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 19:17:57 +0100, Arthur Figgis
Post by Arthur Figgis
Post by Roland Perry
Post by e27002 aurora
<http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/01/londons-jubilee-line-will-be-
renamed-to-celebrate-pride/>
"Mayor of London Boris Johnson told PinkNews: "I am thrilled to
welcome the Pride line to London’s thriving transport network,
where it will serve as a reminder of the struggle of LGBT people
across our great capital."
April 1, already.
No shit, Sherlock.
"The Pride line will be officially named in a ceremony on April 31."
I was quite excited when one of the candidates for mayor said they would
provide a subsidy for London Pride. It would have saved me a fortune.
There are times when I wish Usenet had the ability to give an up-vote.
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