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Post by nickf on Jun 21, 2013 6:21:35 GMT
I have memories from childhood (late 1950s) of travelling on the Fenchurch Street to Southend line in steam days and of very occasionally finding corridor carriages with lavatories fitted. This was unusual as most of the time passengers had to go without! Another memory is of being told that these lavatories discharged into tanks beneath the floor, rather than onto the four foot and I am wondering, could they have been relics of the old through service from the District Line?
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Post by carltona on Jun 21, 2013 17:08:45 GMT
Lavatories on District trains of old makes a certain amount of sense. I know they ran to Slough at one time, not sure what the longest run was.
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Post by metman on Jun 21, 2013 17:09:14 GMT
I don't think that these carriages were from the pre war District service. I'm sure I heard that they were scrapped/sold not long after the District Locos. I may be wrong though  |
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Post by metman on Jun 21, 2013 17:09:22 GMT
I don't think that these carriages were from the pre war District service. I'm sure I heard that they were scrapped/sold not long after the District Locos. I may be wrong though |
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Post by phillw48 on Jun 21, 2013 22:17:57 GMT
Coaches were built for/by the LT&SR specifically for the Ealing-Southend service. They were fitted with retention toilets for obvious reasons. When the service was withdrawn in 1940 some of the coaches were taken over by the army. These coaches were stripped of all internal fittings and were provided with longitudinal benches and in that condition served on the Shropshire & Montgomery up until about 1960.
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