Kieran Smith
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86 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 1 Sep
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Which connects to the mobile network operators technology and then is wired down into the tunnels to individual stations.
This is where it comes.
This is the first cabinet on the station.
Stepping into a dark closet like room here.
And and we've got one sort of six foot, something over six foot cabinet here, whereas in the base station hotel we were looking at dozens of those.
Yes, and they're little metal boxes that you see at street level, but they contain telecoms equipment.
But the bigger ones here, which are often in cupboards or disused tunnels in the tube system, contain the 4 and 5G antenna that actually sends signal through the tube into the stations that commuters see every day.
We're now walking onto this abandoned tunnel.
I say abandoned tube tunnel because it's still in use, but just not for its original purposes.
Angel Station was expanded and now there's this big gap between the two platforms, which is home to well
Among things mobile equipment
The abandoned tunnel is still connected to the modern day tunnel, which means that when a northbound train comes up from Old Street, the city of London, we're looking right at it.
So what we feels like we've got is a train coming straight towards us.
And you can hear the wind rush now, but uh right about now it's gonna peel left.
So it's about 20 meters in front of us, but instead of coming
When it's over, it's just gone left and onto the platform.
Yeah, and uh I'm not gonna lie to you, Mark, it was um not the not the experience I expected to have that Tuesday morning.
Well, I think there's a few things here, Mark, because firstly, anecdotally, you look at commuters, how frustrating is it when you get on the tube and you can't have any phone signal, you can't send the email that you're about to send, you can't continue that phone call that was really important because you're in a rush.
But also on a wider note,
This is important for safety.
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