Spending a Penny!

Very few trains had loos in the 1860s.  You could take your own, as the adverts below show!

Refreshment cars weren't standard either until later , so you could spend a penny at whatever facilities were available at stops for refreshments.


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"Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, for Great Britain and Ireland". 2^nd Mo. (Feb.) 1855.


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RAILWAY CONVENIENCE.

Gentlemen and Ladies Travelling by Railway will find great increase of comfort by using

WALTERS' RAILWAY URINALS, of which F. WALTERS has a large assortment.

MANUFACTURERS of TRUSSES, and SUSPENDERS for HUNTING.ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
to draw on WITHOUT LACING. NEW INVENTION!
WALTERS' HYDRO-PNEUMATIC SYRINGE.

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FREDERICK WALTERS,

16, MOORGATE STREET, CITY.

N.B. - Entrance for Ladies, Private Door. - A Female Attendant for ladies

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TUCKER AND SON,

190, STRAND, (Opposite St. Clement's Church, and near Temple Bar),

LONDON

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A NOVEL RAILWAY READING LAMP

(for candles), which can be fixed in the carriage in an instant, folds up in a small space for the pocket, and is acknowledged by all who have used it to be the only complete article for the purpose.
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Lancet  1862


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SPARKS & SON, INVENTORS OF THE India-rubber Urinals for male and Female Railway Travellers, Invalids, and Children.

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The above Urinals are made on the most approved principles, and are all fitted with the recently-invented valve, which will not allow any return of the water by the upper part, by being placed in any position, and from their improved construction are better than any similar articles at present in use.

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SPARKS and Son, Patent Surgical Truss and Bandage Makers,

28, Conduit-street, new Bond-street, London.