"I just wanted someone normal; I wanted some normality in my life.

Transport Focus director Natasha Grice said: "Passengers can reasonably expect that the rail industry responds faster and more effectively to stranded trains situations."Howard Smith, director of the Elizabeth line for TfL, said: “The Elizabeth line is a high-frequency metro-style service and, as such, toilets are not provided on the train as adding toilets would be extremely complex, costly and would displace approximately 600 passengers per hour.

"Our priority is to resolve issues as soon as possible."Initiatives include faster identification and planned evacuation of stranded trains, more regular announcements, deploying volunteers to support customers onboard, and handing out information for onward travel, compensation and redress."There was a mini-earthquake in Nottinghamshire on Tuesday night.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) said the tremor happened shortly before midnight - with the epicentre of the 2.2 magnitude "seismic event" in Gotham.Instruments recorded the event at a depth of 8km (five miles) and showed it was one of the largest in Britain in recent months.

Despite this, the BGS said it had so far not had any reports it was felt on the surface.

Gotham is close to the border with Leicestershire and nearby is a geological feature called the Thringstone Fault."We talk about the impact of heavy casualties on the

[units comprising men for the same area, workplace or social group] but the fall of Singapore was just as devastating on these communities," he said."It's beyond imagination, really, because everybody's gone in the battalion at the same time, down to the lowest private, and there's a lack of information and clarity about what's happened to them for months and, in some cases, years."

Many of those who survived - like Tom Allard from Swaffham, Norfolk - could never bring themselves to talk about their treatment at the hands of the Japanese army, according to Swaffham Museum archivist Sue Gattuso.Conscripted into the Suffolk Regiment, Mr Allard "described how he was captured and marched to Changi Prison with the shells falling all around them", she said.