Charging benches at Waterloo station

[lookapigeon]

Has anyone found these actually working recently? I remember when they put in all of the new wooden benches some of them had plug sockets and USB charge ports.

However, I've noticed recently few, if any, actually work. Is this down to a lack of maintainence (or awareness that they are broken) or have they been purposely switched off?

Very handy to grab some charge if your phone's battery was flat.

 

[MCR247]

I’ve never actually found one of those to work at any station that has them

 

[Casper Pesky]

I completely misread this - I thought NR were starting to charge people to sit on benches. I wasn't even surprised.

 

[Russel]

I completely misread this - I thought NR were starting to charge people to sit on benches. I wasn't even surprised.

You should probably delete that before someone from the DFT sees and gets ideas....

 

[TJM]

Has anyone found these actually working recently? I remember when they put in all of the new wooden benches some of them had plug sockets and USB charge ports.

However, I've noticed recently few, if any, actually work. Is this down to a lack of maintainence (or awareness that they are broken) or have they been purposely switched off?

Very handy to grab some charge if your phone's battery was flat.

They do indeed seem to have disconnected absolutely every single one of them (I checked pretty much every one in the station when my phone was out of charge, can see the former cables just hanging in mid-air) - there used to be wireless chargers on some of the tables too. Couldn't get any sensible answer out of staff as to why when I asked last week. Some sort of electrical safety risk was the only assumption that came to mind?

 

[yorkshireguy21]

Has anyone found these actually working recently? I remember when they put in all of the new wooden benches some of them had plug sockets and USB charge ports.

However, I've noticed recently few, if any, actually work. Is this down to a lack of maintainence (or awareness that they are broken) or have they been purposely switched off?

Very handy to grab some charge if your phone's battery was flat.

All the charging benches I've seen (mainly Leeds and KGX) aren't even plugged in to a plug socket! The plug is just laid around underneath the bench somewhere. Most times, there isn't a socket for the benches to be plugged into.