Train firms backtrack over pledge to ban raw sewage on railway lines
Operators admit target to end ‘disgusting practice’ by the end of the year will not be met
A pledge to end the dumping of human waste on railway tracks in England and Wales by the end of the year will no longer be met, Network Rail and train firms have admitted.
Although Network Rail’s former chief executive, Mark Carne, said in 2017 he had secured government agreement to end the “disgusting practice” by 2019, several companies will continue to use trains whose toilets flush directly onto the track.