Why are there no toilets on the Elizabeth line trains?

The most controversial aspect of the new trains is that there are no toilets. A spokesman for TfL explained why. He said: Toilets are not provided on the TfL Rail/Elizabeth Line trains. Adding toilets to the trains would take up space and displace approximately 600 passengers per hour.



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Passenger trains usually have toilets, and the on-board lavatory takes many forms. The simplest train toilets are those called Drop Chute Toilets or Hopper Toilets.

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Where are the tube toilets? Your best bet for finding a place to pee is on the outer edges of the lines. In central London, you're not likely to have much luck. In terms of lines, the District, Central, and Elizabeth lines are most likely to have facilities along the way.

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Most trains don't have sewage tanks so anything in the toilet is dumped straight onto the tracks.

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Most trains don't have sewage tanks so anything in the toilet is dumped straight onto the tracks.

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Yes. As soon as it was considered impractical to make long stops at stations to let everybody go to toilet and wait until they were done before proceeding. Those only consisted of a bowl with a hole in the bottom and a tube onto the track.

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Answer: Older trains used to dump their material on the tracks. But in newer trains, it is indeed collected in a tank which someone then empties at the end of the day.

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Bathrooms start out clean, but honestly get pretty much like your typical public restroom near the end. To be completely fair, cleaning these bathrooms on a moving train would be difficult, and Amtrak probably doesn't think a stop for cleaning is worth driving up the transit time even more than it already is.

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Toilets, accessible toilets and changing places Toilets including accessible toilets, a baby changing room, a Changing Places facility and a mother care room are available on platform 12 and are free to use. These facilities are all available and open 24 hours a day.

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The Elizabeth line is unique on the London Underground in that surface stock trains – as big as the S stock than run on the Metropolitan and District lines – run in tube tunnels under the Capital, and far out into Berkshire and Essex on the surface.

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Tube, DLR, London Overground, Elizabeth line, National Rail, River Bus and IFS Cloud Cable Car. Touch in on a yellow card reader at the start of your journey and touch out at the end. To pay the right fare: Always use the same device or contactless card to touch in and out.

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