No pee kits for trains

QUEENSLAND Rail has poured cold water on a proposal to equip trains with emergency urinal kits to avoid a repeat of last week’s bladder-busting mid-station breakdown.

Commuter group Rail Back on Track has called on QR to install the disposable bags, pointing out the solution was used in 2011 by Dutch national rail operator NS.

Rail Back on Track’s Robert Dow raised the urinal bag suggestion after about 60 rail passengers became trapped aboard a broken-down train last Friday for almost three hours.

One passenger was reportedly in “quite a bit of pain” from having to hold her bladder, while a four-year-old boy desperate for a toilet was forced to pee in a water bottle.

QR says it is not considering the proposal, but is reviewing its evacuation procedures.