A bit of nostalgia!!
Read this it is very funny.
True story from Indian Railways
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*The following is Okhil Chandra Sen's complaint to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. The letter is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi;
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***I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy.
Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him.
I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers.*
and this led to the introduction of toilets on trains.