Intelligent telecommunications network providing automated call booking, call reconnection and diary booking services

A telecommunications network comprising:

• a plurality of switches connected to provide switched telecommunications services between telephone lines;
• a switch controller associated with each of said switches and responsive to signalling from a first of said telephone lines to enable a communication path to be established with at least one other of said telephone lines;
• and
• a network controller responsive to further signalling from one of said first telephone lines or said at least one other of the telephone lines during an established call to automatically capture and store telephone line identity data identifying each of said first and said at least one other of the telephone lines;
• wherein said network controller re-establishes the communication path between said first and said at least one other of the telephone lines at a subsequent time using the telephone line identity data automatically captured and stored during the established call between said first and said at least one other of the telephone lines.