When my sister & I were very young we were told by our Mum not to use train toilets when in a station, as the toilet spun round when the train wasnt moving!
A childhood belief about trains

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch - when i was young i was told that thunder represented god moving the chairs about— lips
- I was told as a young child that if I didn't smile going past the police station, I wouldbe arrested.Anon
- My sister used to think that there was an oil well under every gas station that led directly to the gas pump.Anon
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine