An entertaining day...
Apr. 28th, 2013 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sally_mariaAs some of you will have seen elsewhere on social media, today was my first day helping out with On Train Catering for my local heritage railway, the GWSR.
This weekend was their first ever 1940s event, Wartime in the Cotswolds. Unfortunately I was too busy working to get many pictures of many of the wonderful costumes that could be seen around on the trains and platforms, but just one example of the entrance to Winchcombe station...
As for the job itself, I enjoyed it - pretty hectic at times, particularly when one of the water pipes decided to leak everywhere after about three-quarters of an hour, and we had to turn the water tank and boiler off, and make hot drinks with a plug-in urn and lots of insulated jugs for the rest of the day. There were four of us, and two more relief over lunchtime so we could have a short break, and we were kept busy, but in a good way - lots of happy customers enjoying a day out. I got time to sit down and chat to a chap from the Free French Navy, eat a bacon roll and some very nice cake, before the queues built up again. :-)
I've nothing but respect for the BR employees who used to work in this kitchen and others like it, not just making bacon rolls and tea-cakes like we do, but actually serving meals.
My next shift isn't until nearly the end of May, when I have one of the days of the Steam Gala at the station cafe in Winchcombe. It's easier to get to from here, and more room to move around, but we shall see whether it's as much fun.
This weekend was their first ever 1940s event, Wartime in the Cotswolds. Unfortunately I was too busy working to get many pictures of many of the wonderful costumes that could be seen around on the trains and platforms, but just one example of the entrance to Winchcombe station...
As for the job itself, I enjoyed it - pretty hectic at times, particularly when one of the water pipes decided to leak everywhere after about three-quarters of an hour, and we had to turn the water tank and boiler off, and make hot drinks with a plug-in urn and lots of insulated jugs for the rest of the day. There were four of us, and two more relief over lunchtime so we could have a short break, and we were kept busy, but in a good way - lots of happy customers enjoying a day out. I got time to sit down and chat to a chap from the Free French Navy, eat a bacon roll and some very nice cake, before the queues built up again. :-)
I've nothing but respect for the BR employees who used to work in this kitchen and others like it, not just making bacon rolls and tea-cakes like we do, but actually serving meals.
My next shift isn't until nearly the end of May, when I have one of the days of the Steam Gala at the station cafe in Winchcombe. It's easier to get to from here, and more room to move around, but we shall see whether it's as much fun.
