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Old April 22nd 05, 12:36 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Mike Bristow Mike Bristow is offline
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Default Southern doors problem and the CIS as well!!

In article . com,
Boltar wrote:
To be honest I find it hard to take seriously all these tin pot
pressure
groups that seem to sprout up like weeds everywhere these days. Now
the disability taliban have managed to it into the rules that all new
train
toilets have to be wheelchair friendly. Great. So now some train
companies
have built trains without any toilets. How exactly has this helped
anyone?


I suspect that those two facts aren't as related as you seem to
think; if I were a TOC running a short-hop service (eg: Silverlink's
NLL and Goblin services) where most passengers are on the train for
less than hald an hour tend to be on the train for half an hour or
so, then I would rather have a couple of seats than a toilet.

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