RMweb Premium TheQ Posted July 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2016 Well that seems to have given footplate toilets a good airing, what about the bee in gents urinals in Germany? An aiming spot I know but evidently not successful as toilets now have an alarm fitted to sound when the seat is raised. It is to promote sitting down for a number 1 to save splash back. . That is actually an old joke that can be seen in some UK urinals, The Latin for BEE is APIS 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted July 28, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2016 So a footplate toilet is nothing to do with facilities for the crew of a steam locomotive. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Worst case is when this type is on a train..... A work trip to China in 1990 included an overnight sleeper service. Strange feelings squatting over a hole in the floor watching the world (and one's doings) go by about 60 mph.................... You can also do this on the RhB, albeit at 50kmh and on a proper toilet seat... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 You can also do this on the RhB, albeit at 50kmh and on a proper toilet seat... And some Danish trains... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 So a footplate toilet is nothing to do with facilities for the crew of a steam locomotive. So, not the shovel then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2016 So, not the shovel then? The shovel was used for cooking breakfast (bacon, eggs and sausage). It was usually into an old newspaper and then into the firebox. (As told to me by an old engineman.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 ....It was usually into an old newspaper and then into the firebox. (As told to me by an old engineman.) ...which turns nicely onto the recent subject of compressed dried turds as alternative fuel.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 The shovel was used for cooking breakfast (bacon, eggs and sausage). It was usually into an old newspaper and then into the firebox. (As told to me by an old engineman.) Oh, there are/were stories about the shovel - best not to upset your mate... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 So the "sleeper service" was the view of the track through the hole? With the track sleepers being supplemented by the occasional log. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2016 With the track sleepers being supplemented by the occasional log. I believe that the French CoRail stock has the same arrangement, certainly the one I used had a direct discharge pipe. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Funnily enough I was checking out the removal of the discharge pipe from the No 2 nose end of a Deltic only yesterday. You'd need Steady Aim to hit the target in that thing at 100 mph! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Certainly the old Italian coaching stock from the 1970s had direct discharge, which I and others found amusing when we were bored stiff in the rear coach of a Milan to Rome train on a school trip to Rome, dropping soft drink bottles down the hole and watching them smash into smithereens from the window in the rear corridor connection. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davknigh Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 As late as 2010 there were still coaches on The Canadian that used DD and as a result the last hour or so of the trip into Vancouver the toilets were locked so the track crews didn't get showered. Holding tanks have put a stop to that now. Veering back to the OP, what has any of this to do with railway shows? Cheers, David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2016 (edited) As late as 2010 there were still coaches on The Canadian that used DD and as a result the last hour or so of the trip into Vancouver the toilets were locked so the track crews didn't get showered. Holding tanks have put a stop to that now. Veering back to the OP, what has any of this to do with railway shows? Cheers, David Perhaps we ought to install some large size direct discharge shoot accessed via a trap door somewhere near the pay desk, but only operated after they had paid for admission. My wife's sense of smell would select many likely candidates. Jamie Edited July 29, 2016 by jamie92208 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Certainly the old Italian coaching stock from the 1970s had direct discharge, which I and others found amusing when we were bored stiff in the rear coach of a Milan to Rome train on a school trip to Rome, dropping soft drink bottles down the hole and watching them smash into smithereens from the window in the rear corridor connection. In the mid 1990s Berlin's Stadtbahn - the four-track elevated line winding its way east-west across the centre of the city - was extensively renovated (with the odd find of unexploded munition buried in the ballast) and the new tracks were concrete sleepers integrated directly into the concrete base ("feste Fahrbahn" - not sure what the English term is) and the tracks overlaid with a sort of infill like this: and it didn't take long before the long-distance (Fernbahn) pair - on the left in the picture above - were streaked with what appeared to be semi-pulverised toilet paper. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted July 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2016 ...... - were streaked with what appeared to be semi-pulverised toilet paper. It probably was, Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I think there was no doubt about that... In the spirit of keeping off-topic I'd just like to drop a link to this thread. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 ....In the spirit of keeping off-topic.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I can't help (despite my best efforts) thinking a lot of posters have spent a lot of airmiles and/or money seeking disgusting toilets. For a fraction of the costs and time taken, a visit to any pleb class carriage/coach lavatory frequented by cranks on tour is akin to a Dante-esque Trip Advisor review. I dread to think what that particular compartment of a past its best Mk1 might've looked like after a Footex in the '80s...(shudder). C6T. You new around these parts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 If you want to see a truly disgusting toilet, please see the attached, taken after one of my wifes infamous sprout curries the other night........... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 What an anticlimax Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 (edited) If you want to see a truly disgusting toilet, please see the attached, taken after one of my wifes infamous sprout curries the other night........... Yep, that's one that will definitely need chopping up! Edited August 2, 2016 by Porcy Mane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Yep, that's one that will definitely need chopping up! If they're so hard you need a chainsaw to clear the blockage, I'd advise seeking immediate medical help. If it's not too late already! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Oddly enough I thought the mods might have a little bit of an issue were I to upload a photo of one of my actual postapocalyptic turds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 If they're so hard you need a chainsaw to clear the blockage, I'd advise seeking immediate medical help..... ...or possibly Dyno-Rod. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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