Young children don't tend to give much warning that they need to use the loo. I always insisted mine use the toilet before going on a 313 or 315. Even as an adult, it is surprising how quickly the need yo go sometimes arises. I recall heading north somehwere around Bowes Park or Palmers Green. I knew there was a toilet at Hertford North. Had it been locked up, it would have got quite messy!
Clicker counters, for want of a better name, would assist in this. I’ve seen guards using them to count how many passengers they have, and they’re small and light enough to be in an emergency kit. We used to use them to check loadings on school buses.
Bully for you. Time before last I came back from London, something had triggered my IBS, and a reservation in coach A of an 11 coach pendolino was very nearly a disastrous distance from the loos at Euston
We don't know as i say unless RAIB investigate the industry doesn't like to reveal anything.
Probably not so we dont know but given how important Elizabeth Line is now it needs to be better protected against faults/failures on adjacent lines. Reality is 345s arent getting toilets nor can we expect an army of resources on hand to deal with such events so the infrastructure needs to have high levels of resilience.
Which is the right answer.
This is an interesting point. I used several 345s in the heatwave last week. Let's say the outside temperature is 30C (which it was last week). How long would it take a full and standing 345 without power to become unbearably hot inside? I would say an hour at best.
It is definitely an overlooked area, even though I use a crutch also I was physically removed from a changing places last month by a cleaner, my complaint to the council came with the response "he was just doing as he was told". Tbh any hidden disabilities are often overlooked and dismissed.
Oh I am taking it seriously although I've often had refusals for changing places but that was my first time being forced out of one.
That is the Council admitting their ignorance of the Equality Act 2010. If you have that in writing your MP, relevant disabilities groups and the media will have an absolute field day....
Kinda wish I had got it in writing, it was a short snap phonecall as I was boarding a train, although I have people looking into it, it's not just that councils national dragon that can bring the fire , although to bring things back to more topic I am hoping acsess to the south Wales Changing places are a bit more easy at the TFW stations, I know they are probably the best TOC for their provision of them vital facilities.
would you feel like a sunflower lanyard could help? (I have a non-visible disability too)
As someone with postrate issues, I have to plan my day around the availability of facilities. As an example, probably the most severe, is when I've a flight to catch, I can have zero intake of liquids for hours before getting to the airport as I know there will be queues at (a) Check-in - which tbh I rarely need (b) Security, even with "fast-track and (c) waiting to board in the corridor before and after ticket check.
Quite. It is high time that TOCs stopped abandoning their customers, and expecting them to meekly stay imprisoned for hours on a train. As for bone-headed prosecutions of people who dare to escape, well how pathetic can the British get/
This is the strange thing - I've been a railway enthusiast for 60 years, but have always hated the authoritarian mentality of the British. The hysterical attitude to trespass being one of those manifestations of an authoritarian mindset. And worst of all are the security jobsworths, who even go beyond the official restrictions. Having travelled on a steam special to Shrewsbury, and wanting to take a photo of 'Britannia' as she went onto the front of the train for its return journey I went to the end of the platform, not beyond the trespass notice,heaven forbid! Only to be shouted at by a security guy hired for the event, even though I was within the public realm. I should have been born in a more easy going country, perhaps become a Portuguese railway enthusiast!