Would you know if the British railway system ever had radio phones for
use by passengers as premier American trains did?

They were introduced at about the same time that the original analogue
cellular 'phones were starting to become generally available, but not
many people had them. *The ones I saw, on the 125 mph Diesel High
Speed Trains, probably around the early to mid '80s took only BT
Phonecards, not cash.

Not sure but I think Bomo line 4Reps had them for a while in the RB.

--
Nick

On 02/04/2012 20:28, D7666 wrote:
Would you know if the British railway system ever had radio phones for
use by passengers as premier American trains did?

They were introduced at about the same time that the original analogue
cellular 'phones were starting to become generally available, but not
many people had them. The ones I saw, on the 125 mph Diesel High
Speed Trains, probably around the early to mid '80s took only BT
Phonecards, not cash.

Not sure but I think Bomo line 4Reps had them for a while in the RB.


Don't recall seeing them, the only on-board phones I came across were on
the WCML.

--
Graeme Wall
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Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

On Apr 2, 9:28*pm, D7666 wrote:

Not sure but I think Bomo line 4Reps had them for a while in the RB.

All 158s had them (it was a selling point of the "Alphaline" service,
but they were over a quid a minute so nobody bothered). I *think* as-
built Pendolinos and Voyagers did as well, but they were removed.
WCML Mk3s did as well. There was also a visible "car phone" style one
by the buffet of WCML Mk3s for staff use.

They used to run on Cellnet, I think.

Neil