Train toilets being used as private compartments..

[WL113]

Anyone else noticed this? It seems to be more and more common around the West Midlands. A few times this week I've seen someone dive into the toilet at New Street and remain in there until the train reaches Rugeley Trent Valley! Nice, selfish way of getting a qiuet seat to yourself and avoiding paying!:

Still, its pretty desperate to want to sit in the karzi all the way home!

 

[6Gman]

Anyone else noticed this? It seems to be more and more common around the West Midlands. A few times this week I've seen someone dive into the toilet at New Street and remain in there until the train reaches Rugeley Trent Valley! Nice, selfish way of getting a qiuet seat to yourself and avoiding paying!:

Still, its pretty desperate to want to sit in the karzi all the way home!

One at a time?



I have known Guards check toilets en route.

 

[WL113]

One at a time?



I have known Guards check toilets en route.

Have you seen a 170 toilet? I can't imagine more than one fitting in there...

 

[HarleyDavidson]

We have a method for removing such bog hogs on a 450, that's give them a verbal warning, then if they don't come out, just open the doors on the outside and enter the test sequence carefully as one slight error in entering the test sequence can have such terrible consequences.

I mean it brings a whole new dimension to getting your own back.

 

[WL113]

Bog hogs!!! Love that!

 

[306024]

We had a comedy show on a Norwich train the other week when 5 girls thought the accessible toilet on a MkIII was the only place to travel. All dealt with very calmly by the conductor, they seemed genuinely surprised that the BTP had formed a reception committee at Colchester. Most satisfying delay on the GEML all year while they were removed.

 

[185143]

We have a method for removing such bog hogs on a 450, that's give them a verbal warning, then if they don't come out, just open the doors on the outside and enter the test sequence carefully as one slight error in entering the test sequence can have such terrible consequences.

I mean it brings a whole new dimension to getting your own back.

can I ask what the test sequence is please?

 

[Minilad]

can I ask what the test sequence is please?

My guess is it involves a toilet blowback function!

 

[HarleyDavidson]

My guess is it involves a toilet blowback function!

Yep! And no I can't tell you because they've just changed the sequence so until I've had a closer inspection of the new control module, I won't know.

I'll be a bit like a darlek... Evacuate, Evacuate....

 

[craigybagel]

Personally I prefer to leave them to it.....till we get to the next station. Most toilet dwellers on my routes are only going one stop. I'll normally open the doors at the next stop from the panel closest to the "occupied" toilet, so I get to see the look on their face when they come out just as th train stops thinking they've gotten away with it

 

[6Gman]

Have you seen a 170 toilet? I can't imagine more than one fitting in there...

I've seen 153 toilets. Can't get one in there!

 

[southern442]

One at a time?



I have known Guards check toilets en route.

I was unlucky enough to have the door opened on me (by a female guard!) during a number 2 on a TGV in France when she was doing a ticket check. Luckily I was finished by then but I ended up very red faced

 

[Parallel]

I've once seen someone board a train and go straight to the toilet (a 153 coupled to a 150/1). They were only going to the next station and the guard saw this a mile off and as we pulled into said station, the guard asked to see the passengers' ticket. They didn't have one.

The only other time I've consciously seen someone attempt to get away with it, three lads boarded a 150 at an unmanned station and run to the toilet to they didn't have to buy a ticket. Unfortunately for them, the only toilet was locked out of service due to a fault. Nowhere to hide!

 

[LowLevel]

People going into the toilet deprive paying passengers of the facilities. Thus it's one of the few occasions I will be genuinely nasty towards someone. Whether that's launching them in the middle of nowhere or having a welcoming party of folk in pointy hats waiting for them or failing to notice a tragic door malfunction that results in them travelling far further than they intended in the first place.

 

[me123]

Whether that's launching them in the middle of nowhere or having a welcoming party of folk in pointy hats waiting for them...

:?

Surely not?

I think you'd have to be pretty desperate to dodge a fare by standing in a toilet. In my experience, the vast majority of train toilets are in a pretty poor condition, and I don't think I'd be able to stomach being in one for any longer than necessary. No fare on the network is too high that traveling in a toilet is a preferable option. At least not to any sane person.

 

[bunnahabhain]

I'm quite happy to do a welfare check on folk in toilets for far too long. I'm also quite happy to bang on it and give fair warning to that I need entrance to it immediately and give them enough time to get ready. Generally I only ever have to do this for folk intent on avoiding the fare, I've not yet had an innocent passenger left red faced. Usually you can tell which ones are dashing for the toilet to avoid paying their fare.

 

[185143]

Whether that's launching them in the middle of nowhere or having a welcoming party of folk in pointy hats waiting for them...

:?

Surely not?

I think you'd have to be pretty desperate to dodge a fare by standing in a toilet. In my experience, the vast majority of train toilets are in a pretty poor condition, and I don't think I'd be able to stomach being in one for any longer than necessary. No fare on the network is too high that traveling in a toilet is a preferable option. At least not to any sane person.

You've never travelled to Manchester on VT at peak times have you?

 

[CheekyBandit]

I once stopped a fare dodger using the toilet on a 153 about 20 years ago by getting in there first upon boarding the train (I badly needed to go). IIRC he was effing and jeffing.

 

[dgl]

I suppose dodging a fare by hiding in the toilet on a voyager is probably no worse (esp. In smell) to being in a regular seat.

 

[backontrack]

You've never travelled to Manchester on VT at peak times have you?

You certainly wouldn't 'arrive awesome' in one of their toilets!

 

[PaxVobiscum]

I once stopped a fare dodger using the toilet on a 153 about 20 years ao by grabbing it first. IIRC he was effing and jeffing.

Am I the only person who had to read that twice just to be sure what was meant?

 

[jon0844]

Not sure I like the way Tapatalk now shows this thread. The photo and text isn't related - or is it? [emoji1]

 

[StateOfPlay]

Yeah, chap on my train into London spends the whole journey in the karzi. Not sure if he has a problem, or if he just likes being on the throne.

 

[krus_aragon]

Not sure I like the way Tapatalk now shows this thread. The photo and text isn't related - or is it? [emoji1]

Well that's got me howling...

 

[Stampy]

Reminds me of a trip once from Rugby - Liverpool...

Sat in the seats near the toilet when the train pulled into Runcorn - and 3 women aged about 20, armed with bags of shopping got on and immediately "hid" in the toilet just up the carriage from me.

There was lots of giggling coming from the toilet.... Until.....

Suddenly, the door slid open - dumping one of them flat on her back in the middle of the floor, the only problem being she was (shall we say), in a "state of undress*", whilst the other 2 cackled away in the cubicle, one sat on the toilet...... hock:hock:

There was a scream, as the one on the floor managed to haul herself back into the cubicle and repeatedly hammer the "CLOSE" button......


*Let's just say she wasn't a "natural" blonde!!! :roll:

 

[Antman]

I think I'd rather just pay the fare than be stuck in some foul smelling toilet trying to get a free ride!

 

[trainophile]

One hot summers day I was on a Pacer when three lads got on at an unmanned station, one of whom dashed to the toilet and didn't come out for several stops.

When he did appear (as we pulled into what was presumably his destination station), he was stripped naked to the waist, bright red in the face, and only wearing boxers.

Using the facilities myself a while later, I found it was absolutely baking hot and completely airless in there. Laddo must have been on the point of heat exhaustion... serves him right.

 

[Bungle965]

One hot summers day I was on a Pacer when three lads got on at an unmanned station, one of whom dashed to the toilet and didn't come out for several stops.

When he did appear (as we pulled into what was presumably his destination station), he was stripped naked to the waist, bright red in the face, and only wearing boxers.

Using the facilities myself a while later, I found it was absolutely baking hot and completely airless in there. Laddo must have been on the point of heat exhaustion... serves him right.

Why in the right mind would you put yourself through that.
I would just pay for a ticket.
Sam

 

[John07]

In the 1970s, cheap fares were marketed as 'Big City Savers'. This seems to be a development of this as 'Big Sh*tty Savers'.

 

[Minilad]

I suppose dodging a fare by hiding in the toilet on a voyager is probably no worse (esp. In smell) to being in a regular seat.

I had a little bet with myself on how many posts would be made on this thread before Voyager toilets were mentioned. I had 10-15. So 19 wasn't too far off