06-04-2023, 09:37 AM
(05-04-2023, 02:30 PM)Bluecortina Wrote:1983 or 1993?(03-04-2023, 12:33 AM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: I'm sure somebody will correct this, but my understanding is:
Every station had "local ends" to BT, once in BT's network it could be routed as required.
Sometimes it was convenient (and cheaper as BT charged for each switch) to have one company act as a switching point to save on switches or make things operationally more convenient when successive items came from different parts of the network. Often THS/LWT but weekday mornings would have everything going through Granada for example (the 9.25 junction would be tricky otherwise), and of course ATV/Central handled Schools and CITV.
See routinesheetsdatabase.co.uk you'll see notes about how individual programmes were networked.
In the case of this example I can't think why Maidstone wouldn't have been direct to network (or via Southampton) rather than via LWT.
I've had a chance to look at a copy of the IBA rented circuits dated Jan 1983, so quite a bit later than the date of this fault but probably still very close.
Would be interesting to see that, is it something you can post online? Presumably there's nothing on there still in use?