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« on: October 16, 2007, 08:48:26 »
16/10/2007

From the FGW▸ (First Great Western) website.

09:30 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads due 11:10
This train has been revised.

Regret no Travelling Chef.

Well after being told that buffet cars are to removed from the shorter journey HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units))'s what do you expect.

A chef has to earn his keep somewhere so looks around for another job and decides an offer it too great to wait for the redundancy to come up, so ups and tails it.

After all you can't prepare and serve a hot bacon roll to order from a trolley on a crowded train.

But now the removal of the buffet cars are now in doubt according to Grahames report from the meeting last week that he has reported on, on this forum.

Someone in FGW finally begining to see sense AT LAST.
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2007, 09:55:37 »
So..just because one of the services doesn't have a travelling chef this means that one of them has left the company?
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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2007, 16:04:46 »
13:45 London Paddington to Swansea due 16:43
This train has been revised.

Brasserie service not available. Buffet service only.
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2007, 18:36:00 »
Quote from: martyjon on October 16, 2007, 08:48:26
16/10/2007

From the FGW▸ (First Great Western) website.

09:30 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads due 11:10
This train has been revised.

Regret no Travelling Chef.

Well after being told that buffet cars are to removed from the shorter journey HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units))'s what do you expect.

A chef has to earn his keep somewhere so looks around for another job and decides an offer it too great to wait for the redundancy to come up, so ups and tails it.

After all you can't prepare and serve a hot bacon roll to order from a trolley on a crowded train.

But now the removal of the buffet cars are now in doubt according to Grahames report from the meeting last week that he has reported on, on this forum.

Someone in FGW finally begining to see sense AT LAST.















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