The LNER Encyclopedia

From a third class menu card, the Silver Jubilee, 14th October 1935.

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You never told me that before, Michael! There was also a separate refreshment room on Kings X Suburban in that era as well - sort of late era art deco LNER?. Paid one of my rarish visits to London recently - without wishing to go too off topic myself, met up with people in what was The Shires on St. Pancras, now the Betjeman Arms. It was Full and standing. I remember seeing The Ridings Bar in the old days, right enough, and it was always a busy spot as well, but do not recall ever going inside. To be honest, in those days, they all just relied on the travelling public as their clientele. Think the first Travellers Fare place which got them in off the streets was the refreshment rooms at Marylebone. In the mid to late 1980s, as good as many London pubs, if not better

The Shires Bar and Ruddles County, happy memories. Better than the fifty quid bottles at the champers bar upstairs now!

52A wrote:The Shires Bar and Ruddles County, happy memories. Better than the fifty quid bottles at the champers bar upstairs now!

Fifty sovs?? Leave it out - more like £3.40 a pint of ord bitter now, which might make some Northerners faint!

Yeah, £1.99 a pint at JDs!

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G'Day Gents
Always thought signalmen were well paid? Micky, 5 quid for a night out, us POOR secondmen, we had to go through the arriving trains and drink all the leftovers in the plastic cups and cans, only way we could take our minds off our poor wage packets

Only BRSA club I ever went in was the one at Eastleigh
manna

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When i worked at British Steel adjacent to Tinsley yard, one night one of the Thomas Hill sentinels was parked on our internal railway mainline engines running, lights on.
Security came into the office asking where the crew were we hadnt seen them. It turns out they had nipped out through a hole in the fence to walk down to "The Plumpers" for a pint or two. Needless to say the loco was needed for a shunt and they didnt respond to the radio message so a search was made in case of an accident.
Security just waited till they came back in and they were fired on the spot.

If you'd prefer something to slake your thirst, then here's the wine list from the same menu. Anyone remember Hunt's Pale Ale, though?

Id be tempted by a few bottles of Newcastle Amber ale at a tanner a bottle.

Never seen Amber for years, is it still available?

i think they took it off the market and concentrated on lunatics broth.

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