Recent content by johnesutton

I'd like to see a proper cost-benefit analysis done to justify all these announcements. On First Great Western we are repeatedly told that there is a braille version of the "safety leaflet" available if you ask the guard for it. What is the probability that this announcement produces any...

Free or not free is NOT the question! Availability is. But since you raised it... I am not proposing to get bathed, or wash the car, or water the garden, in the station! So the cost of the amount of water concerned is COMPLETELY trifling. Which is why it is all the more annoying that the...

If there is a mixer then there is a cold supply, which is more often than not a direct feed from the mains and hence of drinking quality. In a public place such as a toilet where there is a lot of plumbing (multiple sinks, flush cisterns, etc) then the additional cost of running the cold supply...

Small world Justin! I did 2 things on t'internet today: joined the rail UK forums and posted a message about drinking water at stations, and (quite independently, via a google search) found the www.aerialsandtv.com website because I need some bits! Turns out there is a connection - you! Very...

I have become a frequent rail user over the past year and am dismayed to find that in most stations there is no drinking water available. To add insult to injury, in the London mainline stations that I use (Paddington and Kings Cross) not only do you have to pay 30p to use the toilet but they...