OT the telephone network

Pretty sure BT keep that info to themselves.

I don't think is generally available, for security. The local council may have the info for road works. As for discusion uk.telecom is appropriate.

Dave

uk.telecom

Not that all that information is available.

This is quite interesting but you have to click around a lot and try stuff out. Using a postcode for searches eventually gives you cabinates for each road, and various maps.

But you will NOT get detail - BT don't publish it, and judging by some engineers' behaviour, BT don't actually know it any more.

For Openreach I doubt it exists or if it does it'll only be partial and/or out of date and not publically available. Exchange locations are a POP to find. You can easily find if a given line is via a cabinet (and it's number) or direct to the exchange. You might also be able to find a vague location of the cabinet.

If you are only looking for your local area the Mark 1 eyeball is your best research tool. Cabinets are obvious. Ducted routes have a chamber every 200 yds or so, though if in a roadside verge the covers may well be hidden under 6" of soil and overgrowth... Non-ducted routes you'll be looking for joint posts and/or small chambers. Then it's a case of "join the dots" running out from the exchange. This is probably easier to do in rural areas.

Thanks for that.

Bill

you're asking for the black helicopters to come and take you away.

Samknows will give the exchange position and as the crow flies distance from it as well as the telephone services/broadband carried but no routing/cabinets details.

I think Angus readily admits the cabinet 'locations' are just centres of postcode areas because the BT data he works from doesn't provide actual locations, so for guidance only ...

He's probably been taken by men in white coats already.

and every experience of interfacing with a BT engineer that you have will prove to you that what they do have,

is wrong

tim

In addition to the 2 urls already given :-

and

#############

Another usefule site is :-

I meant to mention that. Personal experience shows exactly that, but I have never found the cabinets hard to find once I know the postcode.

Google Streetview does the 'walk' quite quickly!

Round here the broadbandy ones have the number on them in yellow paint.

Owain

If you want to make sure your cabinet isn't anywhere undesirable you can have your own cable direct from the exchange to your white slimline push-button telephone with last number redial.

You'll pay extra for it though.

Owain

In my experience even the old cabinets have the number on them, so you know when you've found the right one.

On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 05:50:42 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@gowanhill.com coalesced the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension...

A pearl-white slim-line telephone with automatic redial facility.

What you mean dog groomers?

Bill

I wish they would. I'm fed up of DIY.

Bill

So am I, but it's been two christmases since I took the old kitchen out and I really need to get round to putting a new one in.

Owain