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rail · June 15th 09, 09:22 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

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On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:36:01 -0700 (PDT), TimB
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On Jun 14, 7:12 pm, Owain wrote:
Paul Corfield wrote:
The "studs" are almost certainly a location identifier that the hand
held unit will read. By holding the unit against the stud it shows he
has been to the area as part of a planned inspection.

Some systems in 'night watchman' scenarios can raise an alarm if a
location point isn't scanned within a time tolerance, in case the
watchman has been apprehended by villains.

Owain

And Victorian/Edwardian policemen had to call in from police boxes on
a regular basis.

Did the Victorian police really have access to phones? I'd have
thought it would still be fairly rare in Edwardian times.

The first police phone boxes were in Glasgow in 1891, then Sunderland in
1923, Newcastle in 1925 and London 1928

They were phased out after the introduction of personal radios in the 1970s
though one is still in use in Newtown Linford.

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