TRIVIA: Unstaffed stations with toilets

[AY1975]

Following on from the thread on important stations with no toilets at www.railforums.co.uk/threads/important-stations-with-no-toilets.191824 how many examples do you know of unstaffed stations that do have toilets?

For obvious reasons it is pretty rare for unstaffed stations to have toilets, but I can think of two examples: Garsdale on the Settle & Carlisle, and Ryde St John's Road on the Island Line. The latter kind of counts in that it has no ticket office, although I think the Island Line head office is in the main building on the northbound platform (or at least it was when it was a separate franchise).

Porthmadog station on the Cambrian line used to have toilets back in the 1980s even though it was already unstaffed by then (I think it had a station café, though) but I don't think it still does.

I would guess that where an unstaffed station has toilets, the station adopter (or station café owner or station house resident if there is one) has to keep an eye on them.

 

[ge-gn]

Saxmundam did until recently. I assume they disappeared when the station building burnt down a year or so ago.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Cheddington, also still has a nice indoor waiting room. Rural Bucks is near crime-free, so it just needs locking overnight.

 

[hexagon789]

Gleneagles; there is an accessible toilet in the platform 2 waiting room.

 

[DelW]

Porthmadog station on the Cambrian line used to have toilets back in the 1980s even though it was already unstaffed by then (I think it had a station café, though) but I don't think it still does.

I would guess that where an unstaffed station has toilets, the station adopter (or station café owner or station house resident if there is one) has to keep an eye on them.

Last time I was there, Porthmadog station had a pub in the station building (quite a pleasant one, too). It must have had toilets, though I can't remember if they were reached only from within the pub, or if they opened directly off the platform.

Many years ago (1970s) I used to go drinking in Manningtree station buffet, when it first became a real ale pub, and the toilets were at the other end of the platform. The station might still have had railway staff though.

 

[Cheshirelinnet]

Garsdale has the signal box opposite the toilets so an eye can be kept on the facilities

 

[SteveM70]

Crianlarich has toilet facilities (separate to the cafe) and is - I presume - unmanned

 

[BucksBones]

Cheddington, also still has a nice indoor waiting room. Rural Bucks is near crime-free, so it just needs locking overnight.

... Featuring various bits of NSE furniture and signage in time capsule-like condition!

https://www.railforums.co.uk/data/attachments/38/38076-79475ebecc7880b1dfd42b66389c0e3a.jpg

 

[Bletchleyite]

... Featuring various bits of NSE furniture and signage in time capsule-like condition!

https://www.railforums.co.uk/data/attachments/38/38076-79475ebecc7880b1dfd42b66389c0e3a.jpg

Love it! I believe it used to have a water boiler for free tea/coffee though I doubt that's there any more? I should drive down one time I go to London and experience it!

FWIW Bletchley building is left open 24/7 even when nobody is there (there is no other access to the platforms), though these days the anti-suicide security guards are usually knocking around (so vandalism is unlikely) and the bogs usually get left open for their benefit.

 

[Gemz91]

North Queensferry, don't think its staffed (but maybe). Although National Rail Enquires lists it as having no toilets, I defiantly used one there over the summer.

 

[HamworthyGoods]

and Ryde St John's Road on the Island Line

Ryde St Jones Road is staffed though.
Whilst it doesn’t have a ticket office it has a member of Island Line staff operates the signal cabin.