A less profitable but still lucrative version of this would be to purchase the same brand miniatures over the shop counter then sell these on over the buffet counter with, I would imagine, at least 100% profit on each sale.
I knew that the red disc indicated that the communication cord had been pulled, but I didn't know that turning the disc had the same effect as pulling the cord. One learns something new practically every day!
Bar staff have told me of a similar trick with still mineral water, where a stock of tap water in second-hand still water bottles was maintained, and when one was ordered the person behind the bar would take one from the shelf and twist the cap as it was handed to the customer, so that it looked like the seal was being broken. Whether this was done in BR catering, I don't know -- but I wouldn't be surprised if it were.
Still there on class 156 unit windows, as well as “Kaye, Leeds, BR” stamped on the vestibule sliding door handles (which I’m sure are the same type as fitted to Mk1 compartment sliding doors).
The parry people movers?
fixed it for you!!!!
Volunteer accommodation at Pickering. The toilets are connected to a septic tank.
A shared full-size jar of Frank Cooper's Oxford Marmalade in the middle of each table in the restaurant car during breakfast.
Almost certainly better than the BR ones!
And signs above the toilet saying do not use in stations. And signs in Mark 1 toilets saying "Gentlemen lift the seat".
....and signs in the toilets of some of the few remaining pre-nationalisation carriages saying: 'Gentlemen please adjust your dress before leaving'.
Which reminds me of a wonderful Beyond the Fringe sketch. I'm paraphrasing from memory here:
I don't recall seeing that sign in a gents in a railway carriage, but when I was a kid back in the 1960s it used to be quite common in the gents in town centres (now that's something else that's almost extinct these days!). I thought it amusing, and my dad had to explain that it wasn't a reference to men wearing a dress but was a euphemism for doing up one's trouser zip.
I always thought it was about getting “things” onto your preferred comfortable side before leaving.
Probably both. Either way, we wouldn't want passengers passing along the corridor - especially female ones - inadvertently witnessing a game of pocket billiards, would we?
Still seen in older vehicles on heritage railways and also some heritage mainline stock such as SRPS* and WCRC** vehicles....although these are rapidly being converted to CET***, so the signs will; disappear soon.
Oe could also "look forward" on the 310s, by kneeing on the front bench seat.
Yep....and on the very similar 312s.
There's a few 508s with the fishbowl effect in some of the failed window units!
So was all the furniture done out in Trojan pattern upholstery and the crockery all that Travellers Fare grey colour? Toilet could only be flushed by pressing a floor stud?
