British railway carriage toilet etiquette

Only certain operators still use "rail dump" toilets, much of the "new" rolling stock is similar to aircraft, ie big ELSANs.

I guess with Northern Rail servicing Asgaard, we're still in open sewer territory! Is there any sanitisation of 'rail dump' materials?

A good job the rail dump system is not used on the channel tunnel services, other wise it would be a rather messy journey.

Loki posted:

Standing at a railway station today I noted, through the browned and decomposing paper detritus between the rails the aftermath of an apparent inability of passengers to observe the requested etiquette of not flushing the train toilets in stations on at least 10 separate occasions. Questions: a) is this prevalent near you?; b) is the jettisoned waste processed hygenically before it hits the  ballast between the tracks? c) are we effectively travelling along an open sewer? and d) if so, what effect, if any, does this have on locomotive, carriage and passenger hygiene?

You counted?

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Graeme, I did!