There's no money to modernise the trains.
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Modernise
//ˈmɒdənaɪz//
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The principal locomotive workshops now in use are those of the former Rhymney Railway at Caerphilly, modernised and re-equipped to meet the requirements of the new regime.
Source: wiktionary
The same applies to the toilets. Simply the ability to remove those labels that read "do not flush while the train is at a station" (a sticker that dates a train as 'old') modernises them no end.
Source: wiktionary
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