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Old January 29th 19, 09:37 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default When the software meets the hardware

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:56:13 -0000 (UTC)
Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:55:38 -0000 (UTC)
Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
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A portable vacuum unit to empty them. How else?


The walkways along the stabling sidings aren’t sufficient for a mobile
vacuum unit (does such a thing even exist?) let alone a wheeled tank


Have you never seen the lorry that empties a septic tank?


Will it fit along the platform, down a flight of stairs, across the 2 feet
wide boarded walkway, and along the ballast down the 4 foot gap between
trains?


They could try using a long hose. Honestly, if the railways can't think of
a way to empty a septic tank then they're really up **** creak. Pun intended.

The fixed equipment at depots have a larger-than-portakabin-sized building
which handles the effluent, and a proper feed into the sewage system.
Neither available at the stabling sidings mentioned.


Then they should be.

They managed to install toilets on le shuttle with normal doors. People seem
to manage to use them.


The toilets on Le Shuttle aren’t a great example to compare things to.
They’re disgusting. Clarkson was right to **** in a bottle.


TBH I don't see the purpose of them either. The journey is only 45 mins.

Edinburgh to Penzance. It forms an early PM peak commuter train from
Bristol.


I doubt many people went end to end.


I never said they did. I guess a fair number of people make 4-5 hour
journeys though.


Maybe once in a blue moon.