A cold drink on an East Midlands train, too much to ask for ?

[matssundin13]

Indeed, I don't think there are any trains running from Sheffield that have them now. Virgin still have them, which means Manchester or Doncaster to London trains, but from Sheffield it's an at seat service in both 1st and standard.

 

Virgin don't run through Doncaster anymore. (CrossCountry do, but they don't run to London)

 

Virgin are West Coast Mainline - Euston to Glasgow / Edinburgh via Manchester, West Mids etc and North Wales too.

 

It's East Coast / First Hull Trains and Grand Central Doncaster to London.

[OOmpa]

Why not go to the buffet carriage and get your own ……………. Sorry I forgot you were in first class and expect waiting on hand and foot.

 

I have travelled first class and lost my seat because a train had been cancelled and on another occasion there wasn’t even a curled up sandwich left let alone a cold drink on the return leg ……… did I throw a wobble ………. did I complain via email …………… did I on a forum. No. Stiff upper lip and all that.

 

They no longer provide a buffet carriage all refreshments are served by a trolley and if they can't be bothered to put a trolley on the train there's nothing!

[Justin Smith]

I thought all Brits liked their beer at room temperature

 

That`s bitter, the drink that is, not lager.

To be fair I reckon even most bitter drinkers would prefer it cool, just not chilled like lager drinking woofters (like me).

[karlbuk]

On some Transpennine Express services we use these "BEER BAGS" to keep the drinks cold on the trolley. http://www.drinkstuff.com/productimg/43965_large.jpg

[andygardener]

That`s to say, room temperature, more or less.

If I ordered a lager in a pub and it was as warm as those served on the average British train, I`d send it back.

And so would most people.

 

It would be rude not to ask...is your avatar you disapearring up your own ass?

[MonkeyLover]

Why not go to the buffet carriage and get your own ……………. Sorry I forgot you were in first class and expect waiting on hand and foot.

 

I have travelled first class and lost my seat because a train had been cancelled and on another occasion there wasn’t even a curled up sandwich left let alone a cold drink on the return leg ……… did I throw a wobble ………. did I complain via email …………… did I on a forum. No. Stiff upper lip and all that.

 

All very well if you have someone with you to look after the luggage, or you simply don't have any luggage.

[OnlySheff]

If anyone went into a pub or cafe and was served a room temperature Coke, or lager come to that, most people would send it back, or at least wished they'd gone to some other hostelry.

 

I don't get that. A pub or cafe is generally set up to sell drinks (as well as other things), this means they have the equipment to keep drinks cool because they specialise in it. A train is for the purpose of transportation, not for the purpose of buying drinks.

 

Do you go into a pub and complain that they are not moving quick enough, or they were not on time?

[gnvqsos]

I was on an East Midlands Trains service from London the other day and on this occasion I was in First class, not that that actually matters for the purposes of this subject.

I was parched and asked for a cold Coke.

Now we'll ignore the unforgivable fact that on East Midlands Train First class "cold" drinks are only available from the trolley (which is at the other end of the train.....), and just concentrate on the fact that even if I'd waited for said trolley to appear in First Class [it did so around about Derby], the bleedin' Coke would have been room temperature.

 

Where else but on a British train would anyone buy a lukewarm coke ?

 

If anyone went into a pub or cafe and was served a room temperature Coke, or lager come to that, most people would send it back, or at least wished they'd gone to some other hostelry.

But, apparently, on EMT, and most other train companies, even in First class (the "premium product"), it's fine.

I`m willing to bet that even the EMT staff member (who I wrote an E Mail complaining about this to) gets his beers out of the fridge when he's at home, not out of the kitchen cupboard.

Pathetic.

 

I would guess that 95pc of coke is bought at room temperature.You ought to write to your MP and the CEO of the rail co.Its also hard when you are squashed into Ist class carriage,and would have to walk miles to a trolley.I would have bought my drinks at the station or before;never buy anything on the train proper.

[gnvqsos]

It`s nice to hear from someone unique.

I don`t know anyone else who is quite happy to have a lukewarm lager.

It`s got nothing to do with First Class. Standard class passengers shouldn`t be served warm Coke either.

The First Class trolley thing is a slightly different problem in that there`s no availability of soft drinks (or beers) at all, warm or not. Actually there is, but only when the trolley finally gets all the way from the back of the standard class. Not that I`m suggesting it should jump straight to First Class at their expense. I`m suggesting that EMT should serve drinks from the galley, and, in fact, from the fridge in the galley, like all their staff would when they`re at home.....

And anyway you`re wrong about planes, the drinks on planes are usually cold, even, incorrectly, the red wine. Whether this is deliberate, or because the storage bays aren`t heated much (it`s 40degrees under outside.....), I know not.

Love lukewarmCarling as flavour enhanced.However I have long advocated a hostess service for first class passengers.When I was in Uttar Pradesh we each had a drinks wallah,and one for food and washing.

[Justin Smith]

We`ve just come back from Marrakech, out by train and back by plane, and a very interesting trip it was.

Now Morocco isn`t Third World, but it isn`t as advanced as the good old UK, but, surprisingly, the Coke we bought on the train over there was chilled ! I accept the trolley had only just been loaded, but, contrary to what an earlier post said, I`ve never had a chilled drink from any trolley on any British train, regardless of whether it`s just been loaded or not.