On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 09:52:16 -0000 (UTC)
Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 20:22:39 -0000 (UTC)
Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
The vacuum flush saves water and retention tank capacity and allows the
train to run a whole day (or maybe two, for those which outstable) without
tanking;

How delightful. A mobile sewage farm.


The alternative is for the entire railway to be the sewage farm.

I meant in the sense of them no necessarily being emptied every night.

So the toilets are complex so that when a fault occurs due to their
complexity
a technician can be notified? Calling Mr Heller....


Conventional toilets get blocked too. Conventional toilet door locks fail
too. Conventional toilets run out of water too...

I can't remember the last time the toilets in my office failed never mind
my house. As for the locks failing, who the hell cares? Keep it shut with your
foot.

Perhaps install more toilets in stations and get rid of them on trains
altogether. We're a small island, there are no journeys really long enough to

make them worthwhile except maybe the overnight sleeper to scotland but thats

not a commuter train.


People travelling 5h30 from Paddington to Penzance might disagree.

Possibly, but those sort of journeys are probably 1 in 1000. There's little
reason to have toilets on most multiple units IMO, certainly not something
like Thameslink where the average journey is probably 45 mins.