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[baggheed]

Did the mighty Brits not adopt the european number?
Here in Eire it's 112 or the old 999 still works.

Us oldtimers remember these wierd thinks called landlines

999 I think is to do w/ the automated switches and numbering systems from back in the day
at least, 911 is to do w/ that, not too sure about 999, it was around for longer, maybe another reason....to dwiki!

999 is still the official emergency no of uk AND ireland it is use in conjunction with the weird euros 112 and is used in most commonwealth countries still(except canadia which is just a retarded yank state which we own but let the yanks rule))so we win thx

[Del]

...ahzo, not only cos of the routing/switching, but also because of the coinbox phones, say dwiki

999 was chosen because of the need for the code to be able to be dialled from A/B button public telephones. The telephone dial used with these coin-boxes allowed the digit '0' to be dialled without inserting any money, and it was very easy to adapt the dial to dial '9' without inserting money. All other digits from 2 to 8 were in use somewhere in the UK as the initial digits for subscribers' telephone numbers and hence could not easily be used. Had any other digits been used, other digits between that one and the already free '0' would also have been able to be dialled free of charge. No other telephone numbers existed using combinations of the digits '9' and '0' (other than one in Woolwich), therefore there would be no unauthorised 'free' calls. Another determining factor was that in many rural exchanges subscribers already dialled the routing digit 9 to call numbers on their parent exchange. This meant that 999 could be made available with no changes at those outlying exchanges, since the main exchange could simply route to the operator when 99 was dialled into its incoming trunks.

Thus the easy conversion of coin-box dial was the deciding factor and the fact that 999 was not used almost anywhere, other than for accessing the occasional 'position 9' of an Engineering Test Desk in the telephone exchange. Numbers beginning with 1 were excluded for other technical reason; for example, 111 could be dialled by accident by wires making contact.

who's old enough(or lives in a backwards enough part of the country) to remember the A/B phones?

[Selby]

The #222 bus route goes from Crewe Bus Station to Wychwood Park:

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[Jonnywhy]

A restaurant I never want to go to: http://www.222veggievegan.com/

[Taekwon-joe]

The #222 bus route goes from Crewe Bus Station to Wychwood Park:

Looking at the pictures makes the #222 look like a trip from hell the heaven.

[Selby]

Crewe is the gateway to the North - so - to me - that is Heaven.

[baggheed]

Crewe is the gateway to the North - so - to me - that is Heaven.

the zombies are in the precinct