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No crossed lines at King's Cross
When did the Cadbury vending machines also go? When there was some concern about them potentially catching fire, IIRC. Not something LU takes any chances about these days (quite rightly). I am not sure that is correct. The Cadburys machines were installed long after the fire regulations applied to LU stations. The machines would have had to have been compliant or else have approved waivers based on a risk assessment. I believe the Cadburys contract was terminated as part of a move to reduce clutter on stations and platforms. I think the LU MD decided that stations looked very cluttered and messy and that a preponderance of machines also caused congestion on the busiest / narrowest platforms. It also added cost to station refurbs and mods with machines having to be removed and then reinstalled thus incurring extra cost. Happy to be corrected but I'm sure that was the line I heard at the time. I believe (from vague and fading memory...) sometime around Jul/Aug/Sep 2007 ... I think that several factors came together at that time, IIRC one of the servicing Contractors went bust, profitability was marginal, grief was high, there were security concerns (because of recent events) over platform "clutter" and LU was attempting to smarten things up a bit before the Olympics ... Cadbury (who had held the Master Contract since 2001) threw in the towel ... Chris |
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