to think everyone knows you don't flush train toilets whilst train is standing in a station?

[ReignBeauDash]

I've had to get multiple long distance trains this last week and on several journeys have had to stand in corridors near the toilets as it's been so busy. For various reasons I've not really used trains in about 20 years!

I honestly thought it was common knowledge that you don't flush train toilets whilst at a station? Or has that changed in the last 20 years?

It's like people are actually waiting for the train to stop moving to get out of their seats and head for the loo - over and over at station after station

I've certainly not heard of "never flush toilets while train is in station" but I've only really taken trains while commuting into work (in my 20s), not as a child so afraid never known about this fact!! Interesting!

I actually have no idea!

This just goes to show one should never assume "everyone" knows something. I honestly thought this was common knowledge. But I'm sure there are things I've never heard about that other people would be horrified by. You don't know what you don't know and all that.

Bleeeeuuugghhhhh 🤢

So disgusting. Shocking that it was ever allowed, the poor workers on the tracks too.

I agree OP, I still feel a bit naughty if I flush the loo on a modern train while it is in the station, even though I did know it’s actually fine these days! It was drummed into me as a child that you mustn’t, when I used to travel pretty often on the old Network South East slam door trains. The seats were super comfortable on those trains though (the normal seats, not the toilet seats!)

I remember being kept in the departure lounge for ages waiting for our flight and by the time we boarded I was desperate for the loo. OH was sure I wouldn't be allowed to use the loo before take off but the staff said it was fine. Otherwise I'd have peed myself

OP, do you not flush the toilet on an aeroplane when above land?

When I was a kid we used to climb up onto a railway bridge and sit in this little space under the tracks and smoke ciggies...

Yes what you're imagining happened😭

I've never been on an aeroplane!

But that's not the same situation, unless you are suggesting that it was previously not permitted to flush plane toilets when in the air but things changed and now it is permitted?

In the past, flushing train toilets when in a station wasn't allowed as the toilets flushed straight onto the tracks. Over the last 20 or so years, most (but not all) trains have stopped doing this so it's usually ok to flush in a station now.

You seem to think it's something I've just invented and that I'm a bit silly, but actually it was once the case and now (mostly) isn't.

Controlled Emission Toilets (CET) are on new trains manufactured since c. 2005.
Trains are leased the banks that own to the train operator.

I travel in to London Liverpool Street, and on the older trains there are still signs that say not to flush the toilet in a station.

See it every day on the older trains that don’t have CET.

Airplanes don't jettison sewage.

You aren't allowed to use the loo when taking off/landing because you have to be in your seat with seat belt on.

Have you seen the movie ‘Joe Dirt’ 🤣

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he thinks it is a lucky meteorite 🤣