tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post1711805782730143531..comments2024-03-26T10:23:12.534+00:00Comments on round the rails we go: MerseybeatsScott Willisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284196034782356946noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-50093635603208605492012-07-04T06:42:42.984+01:002012-07-04T06:42:42.984+01:00I've also had the occasional signal at Central...I've also had the occasional signal at Central, depending on what way the wind blows. It's a very shallow little tunnel, remember - there's not much between you on the platform and the street above. I'd prefer there to be mobile dampeners on the network rather than boosters but that's because I'm a miserable sod who hates hearing people bellow down their Nokias.<br /><br />I think the weird stretching is less to do with presenting a positive image and more to do with a very lazy Photoshopper at Rail House. If you look at the far end of the platform you can see they didn't bother removing all the brown plastic seats. It must've been a Friday afternoon job.Scott Willisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284196034782356946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-44739768062547751162012-07-04T02:03:34.835+01:002012-07-04T02:03:34.835+01:00I was once quite surprised when my mobile started ...I was once quite surprised when my mobile started ringing whilst I was waiting on the Northern line platform at Central. I actually wondered if they had installed devices to pick up gsm signals.<br /><br />On an unrelated subject, is it just me who thinks this image - http://loveliverpoolcentral.com/images/slider5.jpg - on the loveliverpoolcentral homepage, has been purposely squashed down to make it look like the new Wirral line platform is going to be wider?Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-35761241793103072892012-07-03T20:27:32.220+01:002012-07-03T20:27:32.220+01:00The markings on the side of the bare tunnel are mo...The markings on the side of the bare tunnel are most likely distances in miles and chains from the notional zero post (Mann Island Junction).<br /><br />The reason for wifi and not mobile telephone signals is usually to do with security: the (supposed) threat of remotely-triggered bombs set off by calling a mobile phone. The same reason was given for official reluctance to articulated trains (as now seen on LU and LO) where you can see all of the way down the train: nothing to impede the progress of a bomb blast. They got over that in the end, obviously.Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04992989840233745094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-14744999299936146002012-07-03T20:04:45.313+01:002012-07-03T20:04:45.313+01:00This kind of post is the digital equivalent of tho...This kind of post is the digital equivalent of those factsheets you could send off for at the end of BBC schools programmes.<br /><br />I mean this as a compliment.Ianhttp://twentyfiveyearsagotoday.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-86193195506811563992012-07-03T19:46:03.401+01:002012-07-03T19:46:03.401+01:00Surely it would be far more worthwhile and useful ...Surely it would be far more worthwhile and useful to install whatever would be necessary to introduce mobile phone signals into the underground rather than wifi? They've done it in the Mersey Tunnels.gottagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11152621735220067381noreply@blogger.com