end of yet another era

[StevieG]

Seems like the new 'at-seat' hot food in 1st class is not off to a good start the last two evenings.
I hear that on tonights 1833 KX-Brad.F.S. (10-min. late start after boarding only began at 1838 -inward train from Edinb., late arrival following 'signalling probs. near KX'), the staff had to announce no hot food available (lack of supplies' deliveries to the platform perhaps).
Yesterday's KX evening peak arrivals from Scotland were all quite late (high scots winds), so there could have been similar problems on the departures they formed, caused by quick 'turnrounds'.

[strang steel]

G'Day Gents

Always got a bit of a buzz walking past one of the restaurant cars at KX back in the early seventies, and seeing the uniformed staff getting everything ready for there trip, weather it be a normal train or a Pullman, also walking past a Pullman train on a miserable day and seeing the tables all laid with white linen silver cutlery and the glow of the table lamps, something I could never afford on railwaymens pay !!

manna

We spotters sitting on an embankment by the ECML in the 1960s used to love the smell that drifted up following the passage of the Pullmans around lunchtime, (south Lincs that is). From memory there were at least 2 (the Tees-Tyne and the Yorkshire?) although for a time there may have been a Sheffield Pullman as well.

The smell of fresh coffee and dinner being cooked was enough to make us look at our warm ham sarnie and bag of crisps somewhat wistfully.

[giner]

And who can forget the aromas of the nightly B1-hauled up Immingham fish? S'truth!! That was always our stinky sign-off for the evening from Norton Green Lane bridge.

[strang steel]

We never had that 'pleasure', as the fish train ran via Boston and Spalding therefore did not join the ECML until Werrington Junc.

I could mention the smell of animal hides being transported to the nearby tannery, but that was by road and so way O/T.

[v3man]

Edinburgh Waverley used to smell of fish when I was catching my train home from work as the Aberdeen-London fish train stood changing engines. Interesting thing about the fish trains was that when they passed you at speed the smell was quite a bit behind them!

[52D]

I concur with V3man about the smell coming after the train had passed.

[cambois]

The early HSTs used to live a lingering smell of hot cooking oil behind them in the otherwise fresh Northumberland country air.