TELEPHONING FROM TRAINS
ENGLISH EXPERIMENTS D jminion Special Service. London, June 13. Railway authorities in this country are watching closely the developments which have taken place in Canada in connection with the application of wireless telephony to the needs of the business passenger. Their intention is to experiment with the innovation here in the light of the results which are being obtained overseas, and should present indications be fulfilled the day is not far distant when a passenger from Glasgow to London will be able to carry on his business during the journey through tel -phone very similar to that on his own desk at home. The Dominion authorities have succeeded so fa? beyond their expectations, and are already planning telephone installations in a number of trains over short distances. Briefly, the procedure is me linking of the train telephone with a switchboard in a rear coach. The operator there inquires for the number in the usual way. and communicates with the nearest receiving station by wireless, the call in turn being passed through to the ordinary telephone exchange. Calls from “terra firma” to moving trains have also been put through satisfactorily by reversing the process
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 265, 5 August 1929, Page 12
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196TELEPHONING FROM TRAINS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 265, 5 August 1929, Page 12
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