Number 2s. Unbelievable!

[Dustydog]

With effect from 2019 Network Rail confirm no train toilets will continue to empty their contents onto the tracks
I'm amazed the practice continues
Good job aircraft don't do the same B) B)

 

[Parksy]

I don't know if you've ever watched those Freeview documentaries on tv about the railways DD, but when the fitters are in the maintenance pit underneath railway carriages on one part of the underfloor there's a rectangular chute, with bits of mashed up toilet paper stuck like papier mache around it, and it's the lavatory discharge chute.

Obviously the fitters try to avoid that area, but the track laying gangs have to contend with the railway sleepers, and one side, which is stained, is universally known as 'the cess'.

 

[Dustydog]

Parksy. I'm amazed. Over 100 years ago we had proper toilets and sewers to stamp out cholera, typhoid etc. Good old Thomas Crapper invented the flush but I guess he forgot to tell the railways !

 

[Parksy]

Now we know why the notices on trains ask you not to use the lavatory when the train is at the station.
At least modern railway carriage toilets have macerators. :dry:
When we were kids we often played around the railways, we could see and hear steam trains from miles away.
On the embankments we'd often find tomato plants.
Guess where the seeds and the fertiliser came from?
I'm glad that I don't like tomatoes.

 

[otherclive]

Swimming in the Norfolk Broads wasn’t much fun especially where there were moored boats. They improved from 1980s.

 

[Craigyoung]

Well you put manure on rhubarb don't you but I've never really liked that stuff either ! What a topic !!

 

[Hutch]

Dusty D , you would be surprised at how many reports of "Blue ice" in gardens over approch flight paths int airports, this is where the toilet drain valve leaks , forms ice and then thaws as the aircraft comes in for landing.

 

[Martin24]

I'm thinking of starting to keep pigs to make my own ad blue

 

[Jaydug]

. Good old Thomas Crapper invented the flush but I guess he forgot to tell the railways !

That's an urban myth. Flush toilets were invented 200 years before Thomas Crapper was born. What Crapper patented was the floating ball-****.

 

[Gabsgrandad]

Didn't he invent the hole in the seat? Or wasn't I listening in history?

 

[Dustydog]

Jaydug is right. Crapper only invented the floating brass ballcock.

 

[Gabsgrandad]

One that didn't quite work out!

 

[Gagakev]

One that didn't quite work out!

Hope you washed your hands after :lol: :lol:

 

[Jaydug]

One that didn't quite work out

Or how to get your own back :evil:

 

[DrZhivago]

Good old Thomas Crapper invented the flush but I guess he forgot to tell the railways !

Just like Bill Gates invented computers, Al Gore invented the internet, James Watt invented the steam engine and Jeremy Clarkson invented cars.

The first recorded flush toilet was invented by Sir John Harington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harington_(writer) during Elizabeth the First's reign (he is said to have demonstrated it to her, which sets the imagination running). The idea of sending a dose of water down after the event is so obvious however that it was no doubt done before that with various degrees of improvisation - a bucket on a spindle would not be rocket science. The "S" trap came later. Other improvements were of less importance than those two. Crapper manufactured toilets basically to an existing design.