UK: Final flush in 2019 for railroad passenger car direct-dump-onto-the-tracks toilets

No more platform No 2s: train toilets to stop emptying on to tracks

By Gwyn Topham, Transport Correspondent, The Guardian; October 10, 2017

The final flush on train toilets that empty their contents directly on to Britain’s tracks will be pulled in 2019, rail bosses and ministers have promised.

A combination of new trains and retrofitting old stock with modern, holding-tank toilets will end the dumping of raw sewage on the railways.

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