This latter takes the form of an anecdote by a disingenuous rogue of a refreshment room assistant, relating how the martinet in charge (Our Missis) sets forth to check out passenger catering on the Continent.
Services from Aberdeen connected with trains at, where a refreshment room was built.
As part of the London Necropolis Act 1956 the LNC obtained Parliamentary consent to convert the disused Anglican chapel of 1854 into a crematorium, using a newer chapel built by Cyril Tubbs in 1908 09 for funeral services and the station building for coffin storage and as a refreshment room for those attending cremations.
As part of the London Necropolis Act 1956 the LNC obtained Parliamentary consent to convert the disused original Anglican chapel into a crematorium, using the newer chapel for funeral services and the station building for coffin storage and as a refreshment room for those attending cremations.
Each station held first class and ordinary reception rooms for mourners, a first class and an ordinary refreshment room, and a set of apartments for LNC staff.
Their rendezvous is a station refreshment room in a North-Country marketownwn.
This Tuesday sees the centenary of Lean's birth so, when I found myself in Lancashire last week, I took the opportunity to celebrate early with a visit to Carnforth railway station's refreshment room, ideally for a nice cup of tea and a Banbury, but not ruling out the possibility of getting some grit in my eye and having it removed by a kindly doctor who might just be the love of my life.
Just wonderful.' There is now something of a Brief Encounter mini-industry at Carnforth, what with the famous clock, the visitors' centre and the delightful refreshment room - a replica of the set, which was itself a copy of the original.
Instead of the old "restaurant", this year's food entrepreneurs would more likely open something called a grill, bar, diner, shack, cerveceria, bodega, wagon, pit, tavern(a), stand, café, bistro, pub or refreshment room.
In 1928 Ravilious and Bawden got their first breakthrough, a commission to paint murals for the refreshment room of the Morley Working Men's College in Lambeth.
For Lean, the humdrum was drenched in emotion; he himself, as a teen-ager, used to take the train up to London to see a film, then hang around in the refreshment room at Victoria Station, smoking and drinking coffee, spinning out the time so that he did not have to head home and find his unhappy mother still awake.
