Perth railway station needs more toilets

Sir, - I, like so many men over age of 70, have prostate problems and have the need of a toilet at frequent intervals.

I travel from Perth to Inverness by the 10 am train approximately once every three weeks.

Each time I do so I have the same problem as, once over the other side to platform seven, from where the Inverness train leaves, I may need the toilet.

The only toilet, rather cheap and utilitarian for the whole of the station, is beside the ticket office.

I know from memory there was a toilet near what are now platforms five, six and seven and an old photo taken during the First World War shows one to the left of the magnificent clock.

The entrance has been bricked but I do not know when this happened.

Offices are in that building so the toilet infrastructure may still be there and could be reinstated.

This is another instance how, 100 years ago, the facilities were better to what they are now, all because the new ticket office was shifted to where it is now.

They did it on the cheap and without much thought.

Perth station covers an extremely large area and may be second only to Edinburgh in size.

It surely requires more than one toilet facility. David W. Fenwick. The Granary, West Mill Street, Perth.

Historic Perth railway station could do with more toilets, it has been claimed.