wrote

You could say the same about a journey on the tube but I don't think
anyone
would suggest installing toilets on tube trains.

The through trains between Ealing Broadway and Southend, which used the
District Line as far as Campbell Road Junction (and were available for local
passengers, e.g. between Ealing Broadway and Whitechapel) had (retention)
toilets. They ran from 1910 to 1939.

Did the Metropolitan Pullmans, Mayflower and Galatea, have toilets?

Peter

On 26 Oct, 13:42, peter wrote:
Have you ever traveled with a young child?

Aside from cases of genuine need, often children will "demand" to be
taken to the toilet when in strange places because toilets outwith
their home facilities seem to exude to them a curiosity/adventure
value which forms an integral part of their train journey, visit to
the shopping centre or whatever.

--
gordon

In article , d ()
wrote:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:43:34 +0100
"John C" wrote:
wrote in message
...
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:27:59 +0100
Arthur Figgis wrote:
So, do we remove the bogs altogether, cut train services to the
number which can operated with new stock, or put up with it until
new trains arrive?

These arn't exactly long distance services stopping at that station.
Cambridge is about as far as they go so I can't see a good reason to
have toilets on the train to be honest.

They run to King's Lynn as well which takes two hours.

I thought the liverpool street services only went as far as cambridge?
Its the king X services that go to Kings Lynn isn't it?

Uh-oh. There are still through peak services, three in each peak plus one
to and from Ely.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 26/10/2010 10:05, Mitdish wrote:
On 26 Oct, 09:48, wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:27:59 +0100

Arthur wrote:
So, do we remove the bogs altogether, cut train services to the number
which can operated with new stock, or put up with it until new trains
arrive?

These arn't exactly long distance services stopping at that station. Cambridge
is about as far as they go so I can't see a good reason to have toilets on
the train to be honest.

B2003

Dover for the Continent, Cambridge for the Incontinent perhaps?

Speaking of which, when if the Cambridgeshire Guided busway due to start
running, if ever?

Have Stagecoach threatened any legal action against either the council
or the contractor?

In article , ()
wrote:

Dover for the Continent, Cambridge for the Incontinent perhaps?

Speaking of which, when if the Cambridgeshire Guided busway due to
start running, if ever?

Early next year, according to the County cabinet today.

Have Stagecoach threatened any legal action against either the
council or the contractor?

Not yet, unlike the council and their contractor who are at it hammer and
tongs.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:00:31 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:42:23 on Tue, 26 Oct
2010, d remarked:
would suggest installing toilets on tube trains.

B2003

Journeys of an hour are extremely rare though.

On the rare occasion I go to work by tube it takes me 80 mins because I have
to go into the centre then out again. So not that rare.

This place in the centre that you change trains. Are there no toilets
anywhere nearby? That's the big problem with National Rail - generally
no toilets on the stations (or nearby) as well as none on the trains.

Well I hadn't noticed toilets on the platforms at Holborn but anyone knows
otherwise.... And if I was to leave the station then come back in I'd get
stung for 2 journeys instead of 1 in LUs extremely fair fare system even
though I'd travelled the same distance.

B2003

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:53:56 -0500
wrote:
In article , ()
wrote:

Dover for the Continent, Cambridge for the Incontinent perhaps?

Speaking of which, when if the Cambridgeshire Guided busway due to
start running, if ever?

Early next year, according to the County cabinet today.

Have Stagecoach threatened any legal action against either the
council or the contractor?

Not yet, unlike the council and their contractor who are at it hammer and
tongs.

One can only hope that the buffoons who dreamt up this absurd busway get
their comeuppence , but no doubt if they haven't had it already they'll
just get a golden handshake and be sent on their way.

B2003

In message , at 23:19:51 on Tue, 26
Oct 2010, " remarked:
Speaking of which, when if the Cambridgeshire Guided busway due to
start running, if ever?

Current rumblings locally say maybe Spring 2011, but that may well
require the council to "blink first" and clean up the snag-list
themselves.

Have Stagecoach threatened any legal action against either the council
or the contractor?

I've not heard of any. It may even be in their interests to have a late
start because that will allow (apparently) a renegotiation of the
charging scheme, and the lack of house building along the corridor isn't
doing much for the passenger forecasts.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 10:25:18 on Wed, 27 Oct
2010, Roland Perry remarked:

Current rumblings locally say maybe Spring 2011, but that may well
require the council to "blink first" and clean up the snag-list
themselves.

The following has now appeared in the local paper:

"The council expects the project to be completed in mid-January,
and will then have to step in to fix the defects on the northern
section."
--
Roland Perry

On 2010\10\27 09:38, d wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:00:31 +0100
Roland wrote:
In , at 15:42:23 on Tue, 26 Oct
2010, d remarked:
would suggest installing toilets on tube trains.

B2003

Journeys of an hour are extremely rare though.

On the rare occasion I go to work by tube it takes me 80 mins because I have
to go into the centre then out again. So not that rare.

This place in the centre that you change trains. Are there no toilets
anywhere nearby? That's the big problem with National Rail - generally
no toilets on the stations (or nearby) as well as none on the trains.

Well I hadn't noticed toilets on the platforms at Holborn but anyone knows
otherwise.... And if I was to leave the station then come back in I'd get
stung for 2 journeys instead of 1 in LUs extremely fair fare system even
though I'd travelled the same distance.

Since the escalators at Holborn are a bottleneck, why should people of
your ilk be allowed to ride up and down them at no cost?