Abingdon Telephone Exchange, Oxon (1)
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Abingdon Telephone Exchange, Oxon (1)
Image: © David Hillas Taken: 15 Aug 2017
Situated in Stratton Way, this TE was converted from manual to automatic working with Subscriber Trunk Dialling on Thursday 26th June 1975 and was the last TE in England to have that change take place. It has the code SMAI and serves 16,141 residential and 742 non-residential premises in Abingdon plus Culham, Drayton, Radley and Shippon nearby. A BT Openreach van can be seen parked in front of the TE to the right of the photo.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.670944
Longitude
-1.284596