Train toilet sink modules that:
- Are so shallow as to be useless
- Have puny taps which don't deposit water anywhere useful
- Don't have a large enough "lip" on the edge, resulting in the person using the sink being sploshed with water when a rough bit of track is encountered
- Have run out of soap
- Have a drier which is about as effective as a tropical raincloud
My heavens, why do the designers of train washbasins go to such lengths to make them hard to use?
As a long-legged six-footer, I have to bend forwards to reach down to washbasins, but putting the basin deep in a recess makes it impossible for me to bend forward without planting my face on the mirror, so I end up having to crouch awkwardly with arms extended into the basin unit: possibly fine in a mockup in a stationary design office, not convenient on a rocking train.
Then there is the game of "hide the spouts", where apparently
every railway washbasin designer in Britain has agreed that the nozzles, levers and sensors for the soap, water and dryer should be
completely invisible unless you are a child at eye level with the basin, so you have to fumble under the mirror and/or wave your hands about hoping - but not always succeeding - to find what you are looking for
in the right order, or bend double to look under the mirror, all while semi-crouching and trying to keep your balance.
Other countries manage this so much better: on modern trains on the continent they still manage automatic taps, liquid soap and hand dryers, but with the spouts clearly visible above a deep washbasin with plenty of space above it: why can't we?