I had thought that the loss of toilets on trains was a particularly Welsh scandal, but it seems from a letter to the current issue of Railfuture magazine that there is a consistent attack on facilities by operating companies. According to Lloyd Butler of Suffolk:
Greater Anglia's refurbished inter-city stock has lost half its toilets [and] Chiltern Railways' refurbished Mark 3 coaches also appear to stripped of conveniences
The Department for Transport, so keen to micromanage train contracts when it comes to staffing, seem to have no concern when it comes to the comfort of the paying passenger. What concerns me is that people of diminished social responsibility are going, in desperation, to use the vestibules of trains as yobs once used red telephone boxes, as unofficial toilets. It only needs one or two to start a trend.
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