Why can`t i flush rail toilet at a station?

Question

Why can`t i flush rail toilet at a station?

Answer 1

cos the c**p goes all over the tracks in the station and smells

Answer 2

You can unless it is on a Heritage or steam railway.

All modern trains have catch tanks on the bog outlets.

Heritage coaches just dump it on the track.

Answer 3

because the track would be covered in c**p

Answer 4

coz all u flush goes out at the Platform which dirties it n is very YUCK!!!

Answer 5

They used to say the *waste* goes on the track. I don't really think it does though... does it? I used the toilet on a coach on my way back from Poland (got deli belly) when suddenly the coach stopped and the engine went off. I tried to flush the loo and it would not work because the power had been shut off. I could hear voices and I peeped out of the tiny window to see soldiers... we were at the Polish Border and the wanted to check the passports and passengers. I had to leave the loo without flushing it... most humiliating!

Answer 6

Actually in reply to the answerer above - not all toilets empty in to a tank. Quite a few do still empty on to the track - hence the notice you will still come across.

Answer 7

is the brain still numb after all the Xmas booze, don't worry we all ask dumb questions without thinking on times

Answer 8

the waste probaly goes on the tracks while the train is moving nobody wants to smell of human waste in the train station

Answer 9

BECAUSE ITS WATER LOO ROLL STATION AND THERE AI,NT NO STOPPING ME NOW ,,I HAVE TO GO !!!!

Answer 10

You cant flush when you are stopped at a train station because it can spray out and it can come into contact with other people

Answer 11

C'mmon right?

Most grey water on trains pumps out onto the track.

Want that at the station for passengers to smell/look at while they wait?

Answer 12

It used to be due to the fact that the toilets flushed on to the track and a nice little t**d staring at some old lady waiting for her train wasn't thought to be nice. However, it doesn't matter these days for in our sanitised society all train loos flush into retention tanks whixh are pumped out into proper sewage disposal points in the depot.

Answer 13

Because on the old trains the toilets used to flush direct onto the tracks. These days the newer trains have storage tanks on them for the toilet waist to be stored, this is because Health & Safety + EU law deam it dangerous of trackside workers, to be dealing with the waist!

Answer 14

You can in Manchester. It makes the city smell better.

Answer 15

You can't flush any of the older trains in the station as the waste is emptied straight onto the track, and as such would soil the station and eventually the smell would be rancid, as it would mix with the diesel usually emptied on the track as well.

New trains like Virgin Voyagers and Pendolinos, Desiros etc. have what are called 'Controlled Emission Tanks'. These tanks are filled when the toilet is flushed, no matter where the train is.

As the name implies, the tanks are vented and they release the potentially dangerous build-up of methane that would occur in such a tank with such contents.

These tanks are emptied at depots that have CET pumping facilities. The trains are usually emptied at least once or twice a day, as when the tanks are full the toilets will usually take themselves out of service or will simply overflow and will be manually taken out of service by the train conductor/guard.

There was an uproar up north somewhere about 6 months back when some track workers were splattered by an emptying toilet of a GNER train whilst it went round a bend at about 125 mph.

Needless to say that started calls to remove all the old style toilets on trains but as there is no space to fit CET tanks on all stock, operators are stuck with them until they are eventually replaced with more modern rolling stock.

Answer 16

yep, it's because otherwise it goes all over the tracks at the station. mmm.... lovely!