British Toilets In Motion

The toilet in a washroom on board an Airbus A330 (en route from London to Detroit). One of the toilets against the fuselage skin, not one of the only slightly more roomy center ones.

Why do your ears sometimes feel pressure changes when you flush an airline toilet? Because the vacuum flushing may cause the pressure altitude within the tiny toilet cabin to quickly jump 5 to 20 meters, say from about 2000m pressure altitude to 2015m.

For other odd A330 photographs, see my Gallery of Crash Dump Screens. The seatback entertainment systems run an embedded version of the Linux operating system. The OS is fairly stable, but the application is not.

On the Great Northern Railway train between London and Edinburgh, UK. Although it's a very nice and modern train, they still give the traditional advice regarding train toilets:

Please do not use in stations

Magnets! MAGNETS!! LOOK OUT!!! Some of the UK railways put magnets in their train toilet seats and lids. I have no idea why they do this. Perhaps more mysteriously, they warn you about it.

See the Toiletological Signage page for more toilet signs.

National Express buses in the U.K. also have on-board toilets. This is from an overnight bus from Edinburgh to London (about 7 hours).

Also notice the sign —
Do not even attempt to pee standing!
That also helps to keep things clean.

See the Bus Toilet page for more toilets on buses.

See the Toiletological Signage page for more toilet signs.

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