Train toilets being used as private compartments..

[gimmea50anyday]

coming back from York races i noticed the toilet was beginning to overflow into the saloon. On opening the door an inebriated woman was sat on the toilet. A lad stood in front of her with his trousers down and spread eagled while she was chomping down on his saveloy. Trouble was as he was also plastered, in order to keep himself steady he was holding on to the flush handle and the toilet was blocked. So the flush was constanty flowing water over the side of the bowl soaking her backside and his trousers while they were getting jiggy! They were completely oblivious as to what was going on as they were so paralytic, but my grand entrance soon put paid to any mile-a-minute performance they were going to ride that night!

 

[najaB]

I had a little bet with myself on how many posts would be made on this thread before Voyager toilets were mentioned. I had 10-15. So 19 wasn't too far off

I was going to mention it around five or six posts in but thought better of it.

 

[Bungle965]

coming back from York races i noticed the toilet was beginning to overflow into the saloon. On opening the door an inebriated woman was sat on the toilet. A lad stood in front of her with his trousers down and spread eagled while she was chomping down on his saveloy. Trouble was as he was also plastered, in order to keep himself steady he was holding on to the flush handle and the toilet was blocked. So the flush was constanty flowing water over the side of the bowl soaking her backside and his trousers while they were getting jiggy! They were completely oblivious as to what was going on as they were so paralytic, but my grand entrance soon put paid to any mile-a-minute performance they were going to ride that night!

Wow what a story.
Remarkable what you do when you are plastered
Sam

 

[Clint]

This thread reminds me of the old joke:

Three lawyers and three engineers were travelling by train to the same meeting.
At the station the lawyers buy a ticket each but the engineers buy just one between them.
When asked why, the engineers coyly said "You'll see."
They all board the train. The lawyers stood in the vestibule, but the three engineers all crowded into one of the toilets.
After the train has left the guard comes around and takes the lawyers' tickets and knocks on the toilet door and says, "Ticket Please".
A ticket appears from under the toilet door and the guard collects it.
The lawyers were very impressed. On the return trip, the lawyers copied the engineers and bought only one ticket.
To their amazement, the engineers bought no ticket at all.
When asked, the engineers said, "You'll see".
All board the train and the lawyers and engineers cram into separate toilets to await the guard.
After a few minutes one of the engineers emerges from the toilet, goes over to the lawyers' toilet, knocks on the door and says: "Ticket please".

 

[Elecman]

This thread reminds me of the old joke:

Three lawyers and three engineers were travelling by train to the same meeting.
At the station the lawyers buy a ticket each but the engineers buy just one between them.
When asked why, the engineers coyly said "You'll see."
They all board the train. The lawyers stood in the vestibule, but the three engineers all crowded into one of the toilets.
After the train has left the guard comes around and takes the lawyers' tickets and knocks on the toilet door and says, "Ticket Please".
A ticket appears from under the toilet door and the guard collects it.
The lawyers were very impressed. On the return trip, the lawyers copied the engineers and bought only one ticket.
To their amazement, the engineers bought no ticket at all.
When asked, the engineers said, "You'll see".
All board the train and the lawyers and engineers cram into separate toilets to await the guard.
After a few minutes one of the engineers emerges from the toilet, goes over to the lawyers' toilet, knocks on the door and says: "Ticket please".

Superb had me laughing out loud

 

[CockneySparrow]

Personally I prefer to leave them to it.....till we get to the next station. Most toilet dwellers on my routes are only going one stop. I'll normally open the doors at the next stop from the panel closest to the "occupied" toilet, so I get to see the look on their face when they come out just as th train stops thinking they've gotten away with it

Then what do you do

 

[trainmananthon]

I got told a story by one of my colleagues on the S&C quite recently who had gone to Leeds for the day.

At Leeds, a 3 car service, formed of a 153 on the front and 158 on the back had just arrived from Carlisle. Said service then departs a short time later back to Carlisle. Upon arrival at Leeds, a fare-dodger going to Skipton jumps on the train whilst everyone was still getting off and hid in the toilet.
Departure time comes around and said train departs as normal, minus the 153 where the fare-dodger was still hiding in the toilets, not realising his train had left without him. Police called and said person escorted away...

Anthony

 

[WL113]

Then what do you do

Charge them for a ticket I hope.

 

[miami]

Charge them for a ticket I hope.

RORA prosecution for fare evasion?

 

[backontrack]

This thread reminds me of the old joke:

Three lawyers and three engineers were travelling by train to the same meeting.
At the station the lawyers buy a ticket each but the engineers buy just one between them.
When asked why, the engineers coyly said "You'll see."
They all board the train. The lawyers stood in the vestibule, but the three engineers all crowded into one of the toilets.
After the train has left the guard comes around and takes the lawyers' tickets and knocks on the toilet door and says, "Ticket Please".
A ticket appears from under the toilet door and the guard collects it.
The lawyers were very impressed. On the return trip, the lawyers copied the engineers and bought only one ticket.
To their amazement, the engineers bought no ticket at all.
When asked, the engineers said, "You'll see".
All board the train and the lawyers and engineers cram into separate toilets to await the guard.
After a few minutes one of the engineers emerges from the toilet, goes over to the lawyers' toilet, knocks on the door and says: "Ticket please".

 

[HarleyDavidson]

This thread reminds me of the old joke:

Three lawyers and three engineers were travelling by train to the same meeting.
At the station the lawyers buy a ticket each but the engineers buy just one between them.
When asked why, the engineers coyly said "You'll see."
They all board the train. The lawyers stood in the vestibule, but the three engineers all crowded into one of the toilets.
After the train has left the guard comes around and takes the lawyers' tickets and knocks on the toilet door and says, "Ticket Please".
A ticket appears from under the toilet door and the guard collects it.
The lawyers were very impressed. On the return trip, the lawyers copied the engineers and bought only one ticket.
To their amazement, the engineers bought no ticket at all.
When asked, the engineers said, "You'll see".
All board the train and the lawyers and engineers cram into separate toilets to await the guard.
After a few minutes one of the engineers emerges from the toilet, goes over to the lawyers' toilet, knocks on the door and says: "Ticket please".

Does that mean the lawyers were in legal **** or legally in the ****?

 

[misterredmist]

I was expecting this thread to be all about entrepreneurial business ( or BIZness ? )
start-ups from train toilets.....

 

[Camden]

Wow what a story.
Remarkable what you do when you are plastered
Sam

Er, no.

 

[plymothian]

They should be charged extra for having en suite facilities.

 

[trentside]

I'm quite happy to do a welfare check on folk in toilets for far too long. I'm also quite happy to bang on it and give fair warning to that I need entrance to it immediately and give them enough time to get ready. Generally I only ever have to do this for folk intent on avoiding the fare, I've not yet had an innocent passenger left red faced. Usually you can tell which ones are dashing for the toilet to avoid paying their fare.

This is also my approach, and I'll usually ask people around the toilet of they've seen anyone go in there. The strangest one I ever had was on a late train heading for a certain coastal "resort". I'd come across an elderly lady on one of my ticket checks and she'd been a bit funny about showing her ticket, but did have one. After the next stop someone knocked on my cab door saying there was a queue about 5 deep for the toilet and that its been locked for too long. As it sounds odd, and nobody is sure who's in there, I knock and do a welfare check - getting no response I unlock the toilet to find said elderly lady sat on the toilet, fully clothed and treating it as her own compartment. I requested that she vacate, which she did, but not before telling the queuing passengers that they should be "ashamed of themselves" for reporting her.

 

[timbo58]

Had one many years ago, although I'd knocked on the toilet door at least 3 times during the journey and tried to carriage key it open it seemed jammed shut so I had it down as 'empty with faulty door' (HST) imagine my surprise when travelling ECS (empty -me & driver only) later someone emerged (sans ticket or means to pay of course) asking what time we go to XXX (XXX was some 50 miles back and with another 50 to go to my depot and no stops en route (obviously) to leave him. I left him in the tender care of BTP at my home depot 100 miles from where he wanted to be after his intended 15 mile fare dodge.

I don't care what BTP did with him afterwards as a 100 mile and 14 hour+ delay was probably enough to teach him a valuable lesson.

I did have a broken carriage key (more of an 'L' key than a 'T' key) once and a poor chap who'd hidden in the bog for a 5 minute journey in the cotswolds managed for some unexplainable reason to find himself totally locked in when he tried to leave at his desired location only to end up at the next station with no other service returning that evening.

I sympathised of course, as you do.

 

[father_jack]

Yesterdays free "newspaper" (or so called) had this story.....
http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/25/city-...aning-cupboard-with-mops-and-buckets-5643020/

Imagine you buy a £6,000-a-year rail ticket and find yourself resigned to the cleaning cupboard with only mops and buckets for company.
That’s the reality for a city worker who has taken the train from Ipswich to London’s Liverpool Street five days a week for the past 17 years.
The man, who does not wish to be named, says it is on the return journey that he regularly fails to find a seat due to overcrowding, and has taken to sitting in the cleaning cupboard.
‘I found this little spot some time ago and I use it quite often.’
He may regret mentioning this. An Abellio Greater Anglia spokesman said that the cabin in question is a crew compartment, and therefore not for use by members of the public....

 

[miami]

Yesterdays free "newspaper" (or so called) had this story.....
http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/25/city-...aning-cupboard-with-mops-and-buckets-5643020/

So he got a seat? What's the problem!

 

[Llanigraham]

Yesterdays free "newspaper" (or so called) had this story.....
http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/25/city-...aning-cupboard-with-mops-and-buckets-5643020/

Or he could catch a slightly later train and get a proper seat.

 

[southern442]

Yesterdays free "newspaper" (or so called) had this story.....
http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/25/city-...aning-cupboard-with-mops-and-buckets-5643020/

This whole thing is utter rubbish. He wasn't "forced to sit in the cupboard" because he could have stood if he wanted to. He should be thankful that he was "forced" to have a seat rather than standing like everyone else. And also, he should know better than to sit in a place that is required for staff access at all times.

 

[jon0844]

As was said on the papers review (Sky), a person managed to stand back to take the photo so the train can't have been that packed!

 

[306024]

Or he could catch a slightly later train and get a proper seat.

Article copied from Tuesday nights Evening SubStandard. No problem getting a seat on the 18.18 or 18.38 Liverpool Street to Ipswich, or indeed the 18.30 Liverpool Street to Norwich if you arrive in good time. Trouble is some commuters don't want to sit on slightly slower EMUs and would rather stand for 50 minutes or more on a Norwich train. Their choice but makes no sense to me.

Once the remaining RFMs are converted to TSOBs the 'cupboard' will be no more.

 

[CC 72100]

Are we talking about the Mark 3 sets here then? I'm guessing that this 'cupboard' is the equivalent of the bunk room on some catering vehicles on some HSTs?

 

[306024]

Are we talking about the Mark 3 sets here then? I'm guessing that this 'cupboard' is the equivalent of the bunk room on some catering vehicles on some HSTs?

Yes, the cupboard pictured is between the former kitchen area and first class accommodation in a MkIII RFM.

 

[CC 72100]

Yes, the cupboard pictured is between the former kitchen area and first class accommodation in a MkIII RFM.

Ah ok, I'm with you, cheers

 

[175mph]

One at a time?



I have known Guards check toilets en route.

They never did when I spent an extended period on the toilet due to an upset stomach. (I had a valid ticket, before anyone asks!)

 

[gazthomas]

People going into the toilet deprive paying passengers of the facilities. Thus it's one of the few occasions I will be genuinely nasty towards someone. Whether that's launching them in the middle of nowhere or having a welcoming party of folk in pointy hats waiting for them or failing to notice a tragic door malfunction that results in them travelling far further than they intended in the first place.

Good on you!

 

[GW43125]

I was on a 380 recently, opposite a group of youths. One of them went and hid in the bog for a couple of minutes, so they only had to buy three tickets. Afterwards, they came out and after one more person went in, the tank was full and it locked itself out. Imagine their delight when they realised they couldn't go and hide back in there!

 

[Blindtraveler]

I well remember the day I and another member of this fine forum paid a visit to Breich station. We approached by bus from Lanarck and left by bus for Fauldhouse with the intention of going 1 stop to Shotts by rail to intersept the fast service back East. Well as could be expected 2 bus journeys and half a miles walking plus a 25 min fester on a Scottish winters day ment that by the time the 156 got to Fauldhouse we were pritty desperate and went 1 at a time to the toilet and got ready to bail at Shotts. The guard popped out of the back cab right on cue and asked for tickets and was so shocked when we had some he laughed!

 

[michael74]

Toilet bunking seems to be a given here in South Devon, especially in the evening on the local trains, I have noticed some guards will lock them out.