Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/28/train-drivers-consider-strike-action-lack-of-toilets#img-1

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fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 44 pts · 32d (3 replies)

I fully support them on this. Nobody should be forced to piss in a bottle or shit in a carrier bag at work these days. I'm surprised this is the first we've heard of this.

stsquad@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 32d (2 replies)

Most trains have toilets on them. The only ones that don't tend to be the local 2-3 carriage bus on tracks style ones.

Flamekebab@piefed.social · 1 pts · 32d (1 reply)

I thought the Pacers had all been retired?

stsquad@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 32d

I've been on one recently in Wales but that last local train I got was a new one so I think they are being replaced.

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 32d

No loo, no choo.

OiMate@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 32d

That's a shit situation.

StillAlive@piefed.world · 4 pts · 32d (6 replies)

British train stations don't have toilets?

fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 32d (4 replies)

Larger stations normally have toilets - but they're not necessarily in working order, and the odds are they're not on the "platform side" of the ticket barriers, so maybe a 5 or more minute walk to get to.

Quite often the train is only in these terminus stations for 5 minutes.

Smaller stations in-between are normally just two platforms and a bridge to get to the other side.

ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 32d (3 replies)

A bridge? Well la-de-dah Mr Aristocrat.

fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 32d (2 replies)

You think that's fancy? One of the stations I go past has a vending machine. Imagine that? Chocolate on demand!

DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 32d (1 reply)

They sell all sorts of things in the women's toilets at Bournemouth station.

ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 32d

Show off...

onthesolivine@fedia.io · 4 pts · 32d

even the ones that do normally have them locked for whatever reason now. they do normally have toilets on the actual train itself though

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 31d

The rest of us should go strike over this tbh.