No more platform No 2s: train toilets to stop emptying on to tracks
by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#34NG0)
Modern fleets and holding-tank facilities will end dumping of raw sewage on to railway lines
The final flush on train toilets that empty their contents directly on to Britain's tracks will be pulled in 2019, rail bosses and ministers have promised.
A combination of new trains and retrofitting old stock with modern, holding-tank toilets will end the dumping of raw sewage on the railways.
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