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Apparently they can make a decent amount of money, roughly 50% profit: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/07/train-station-toilets-make-millions-ever

• bshimmin 10y ago
  It's quite interesting to see from those numbers how relatively infrequently the pay toilets are actually used: London Victoria has brought in £2,300,511 over 3 years; a quick Google suggests it has a footfall of ~137 million people a year [1]; at 30p a pop, that's really not a lot of people using those toilets as a proportion of the total number of people going through that station. And, in fact, this tallies with my own experience: I've been through Paddington and Liverpool Street hundreds of times and have only used the toilets on a handful of occasions, usually with moderate cursing at having to find the appropriate change. And they never seem particularly busy. [1] https://www.networkrail.co.uk/FootfallBreakdownForEachStation.pdf https://www.networkrail.co.uk/FootfallBreakdownForEachStatio... (not sure of the year)
  • stuaxo 10y ago
    The toilets in Victoria are some of the foulest smelling around.
    • oneeyedpigeon 10y ago
      And they're also 50p now.
  • DanBC 10y ago
    Paddington has a change machine right by the turnstile. I guess many people have just got off a train, or are about to get on a train, and so made other arrangements.