Re: "Express" Cars -- British / Australian usage?

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From: Walter Gabriel
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:12

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William Pearce wrote:
> Coaches with lavatories only accessible from adjacent compartments seem to
> have been used on some British railways, I remember reading somewhere, in a
> book about British trains, approximate quote 'Even the man who had faced the
> wild Matabele in Africa and the ferocious Afghan quailed from asking the old
> maiden lady sitting on the seat in front of the lavatory door to rise up so
> that he could use the facility'.
>                                 Regards,
>                                                 Bill.

And I doubt that the lavatory walls were soundproofed ...

andrew c.

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