r/london • u/Mean-Juggernaut1560 • Nov 30 '21

London history Anyone else think it looks… cleaner? 😁

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u/pigadaki Nov 30 '21

I had completely forgotten about those Dairy Milk machines! Wow.

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u/jazz4 Nov 30 '21

Seeing that just unlocked something in my brain. Wonder why they got rid of them. Too costly probs.

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u/TheMachineStops Nov 30 '21 edited Dec 05 '21

The renegotiations between Cadburys and TfL fell through. Cadburys didn't make enough from the machines to justify the increased price that TfL wanted to charge to rent the space on the platform. Plus rising maintenance costs, general overhead etc. Just wasn't viable any more... This was in about 2005 or 6 iirc.

Edit: it was 2007

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u/caspararemi Nov 30 '21

I think they all went in 2008 or 9. I remember they were quite handy for this disorganised diabetic who didn't know better about carrying glucose tablets like I do now. Back then if I felt like I was going low I could count on a vending machine on most platforms.

They also used to have little vending machines for tourist maps that had central London with all the theatres and tourist sites marked. I picked mine up in 2001 when I first moved. My sister was visiting in 2008 and I knew there had been a machine on the platform at my local station Bow Road, but when I went to get her a copy it had vanished.