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Tim Roll-Pickering · October 31st 10, 07:55 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never
catch on ;-)

Can't you do that on your phone?

Not without a lengthy phonecall to either a busy line or the automatic
service which can't understand speech and which throws a wobbler over any
background noise (especiall screaming brats). It's messy when you have to
rearrange your travel plas due to engineering works.