"Tristan Miller" wrote in message
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Greetings.

I often take the train between Liverpool Street and Stratford and have
noticed that at the former station the higher-numbered platforms reek of
decaying human excrement. Apparently the tracks in question serve as an
open cesspit for waste flushed from the train toilets.

This surprises me; surely in this day and age it is possible to build
train
toilets which either use septic tanks, or whose flush mechanisms can be
disabled while the train is at a station. Are there no local or national
laws or regulations concerning the construction of train toilets, and the
dumping of human waste in indoor train stations? Perhaps the problem is
purely cosmetic rather than a public health issue, but in that case
couldn't the station at the very least apply some deodouriser to the
affected tracks? I have been in pit toilets which smelled better than
those platforms.

Regards,
Tristan

Plat.2 at Victoria is the same, after the Orient Express has been in on a
Thursday night its disgusting down there.

I seem to remember someone telling me a while ago that he had been working
at Paddington cleaning turds from plastic sheets laid in the 4' on some
platforms to stop "effluent" from contaminating the ballast, and I do recall
seeing some black sheets in the 4' when I had to collect some paperwork from
the MDU a couple of months ago.

james