Reading: which loos?

[pdeaves]

This NR press release: https://www.networkrailmediacentre....tation-reopened-following-major-refurbishment starts

The toilets at Reading station have reopened to the public today (6 July), following a £380,000 major refurbishment of the facilities, during the recent lockdown.

What it apparently doesn't say is to which toilets this refers. Is it a bunch on the platforms? Larger ones just behind platform 1-3 buffers underneath the overbridge? Some others?

If anyone knows I would be grateful if you could share! Thanks.

 

[swt_passenger]

This NR press release: https://www.networkrailmediacentre....tation-reopened-following-major-refurbishment starts

What it apparently doesn't say is to which toilets this refers. Is it a bunch on the platforms? Larger ones just behind platform 1-3 buffers underneath the overbridge? Some others?

If anyone knows I would be grateful if you could share! Thanks.

The older toilets in the 1970s, (actually late 80s - see below), public side concourse were in a pretty poor state, I’d hope it would be them.

 

[Non Multi]

The Brunel Arcade was built in the late '80s. Must be those loos, everything else is less than 10 years old.

 

[Paul Kelly]

Yes it's the toilets in the Brunel Arcade (dating from 1989 according to Wikipedia). They've got rid of the "McWash"-style machines and put in sinks with motion-sensing taps and a large mirror behind, and Dyson "air blade" hand dryers. My subjective opinion is that the quality of the work and finish is higher than in the toilets on the platforms.

 

[swt_passenger]

1989? Wow, it hasn’t aged at all well has it?

 

[David Goddard]

Well overdue, they were getting very tired. Their location means that they are heavily used by all and sundry including those not using the trains (to be honest I have used them before catching the bus home) Its a shame this wasn't built into the 2010-15 rebuilt but that did not touch anything outside of the main gateline.
I just hope that these do not end up getting flooded as often as the newer facilities on the platforms. There are often pools of water in those (and I don't think its down to users, moreso the way that the taps spray so violently into the basins and bounce out over the floor).