Toilets onboard transportation devices
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Usually when on a very long journey, one may have the urge to respond to his/her natural calls.
And so there are toilets available on board a transportation device.
Usually on board trains toilets could be found at each end of passenger cars, expect on some types of cars such as the buffet coach, and commuter trains i.e. MRT.
Waste generated by passengers on board were usually cleared away directly onto the tracks as the trains move at high speeds. This could let to incidents where careless passengers dropped their valuables accidentally onto the tracks through the toilet!
However, trains of modern design usually contains waste in a specially designed tank, to be emptied after the train has returned back to the depot. This is usually found on high speed trains such as Japanese Shinkansen.
As for buses, toilets could be found at the rear of an older design long distance bus, and maybe into the tank, to be cleared once the bus is at the depot/terminus.
But nowadays most of the newer long distance buses had eliminated toilets from the design, and new buses such as those of Transtar (SG-M'sia) would allocate scheduled toilet breaks for passengers at a fixed location. (The back of the bus would instead be the galley and the place for the assitant driver to take his break.)
As for ships, toilets could be found virtually everywhere except onboard bumboats, and may be either to the tanks or directly to the sea.
Finally, on board airplanes, toilets are found in the middle and the rear parts of the plane, and would usually flow into a special tank inside the aircraft. -
If given a choice, I'd rather choose to travel on an express bus service without a toilet onboard, but it schedule some stopovers en-route for passengers to relax, stretch out, take some snacks and of course toilet breaks! I feel it's rather unhygenic to have a toilet onboard the bus- that's my opinion.
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Talking about toilets onboard the plane:
I heard from my relatives many years back that a passenger activated the flush while he was still sitting in the toilet bowl. But the airplane is using powerful air suction with minimal water to activate the flushing. And guess what: the powerful suction sucked out his intestine from his ass!!!! How gruesome it is!!!! I don't know whether he survived or not.
Moral of the story: Never sit in the airplane toilet bowl when you activate the flushing system!
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they use vaccum to suck your waste into the tank so if you sit and fluch the toilet in an aeroplane ... well you might find yourself stuck for the rest of your trip.
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Originally posted by SBS3688Y:Talking about toilets onboard the plane:
I heard from my relatives many years back that a passenger activated the flush while he was still sitting in the toilet bowl. But the airplane is using powerful air suction with minimal water to activate the flushing. And guess what: the powerful suction sucked out his intestine from his ass!!!! How gruesome it is!!!! I don't know whether he survived or not.
Moral of the story: Never sit in the airplane toilet bowl when you activate the flushing system! 
If SIA got this type of thing.....
Big News liao
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Well, the suction power is VERY STRONG. I took SIA recently and was surprised but maybe depends whether u healty or not lor.Originally posted by gorby107:
If SIA got this type of thing.....
Big News liao