Cocktail, cocktail, cocktail, cocktail......
In addition to the 20 classic board games, The Board Room will feature two 1980s coin-operated arcade games, pinball and a cocktail table version of Pac-Man/Galaga.
There's a microwave, espresso machine and cocktail bar on board.
In his early years, impeccably dressed passengers were served seafood salad and congregated at the cocktail bar on board.
The LNER was savvy in its marketing, said Gwynne: "It was really a very clever example of developing brand values, selling spin-off jigsaws and selling Flying Scotsman cocktails on board".
It offers 45-minute harbor cruises, with cocktails served on board, for 120 to 240 dollars a person.
Three years ago, when British authorities arrested 24 men they said were planning to bring down airliners by detonating bomb cocktails blended on board from seemingly innocuous liquids, security officials drew up measures to pre-empt such an attack even before they knew whether the bomb plot was workable.
BBC Science Club's Dara O Briain talks us through the facts behind Apollo 11's journey to the moon, including how much rocket power it takes to escape Earth's gravity, and how many prawn cocktails were on board.
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ON THE PLATES Crabmeat cocktail ($12), the "Maravilla" board with goat cheese, sopressata, chorizo and olives ($17); Pumphouse Red ($8), a merlot blend from the North Fork of Long Island, for the men, and guava sangria ($9) for Ms. Thompson.
