dave87016
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So I had my first Avanti FC experience yesterday - Thursday 19th March so here’s my take on it
Boarded the 0815am Preston - Glasgow service ( 0531 ex Euston ) it was Pendino 390 002 the carriage is no different to the VTWC days
Soon as we left Preston we were offfered juice and tea/coffee followed by cutlery breakfast orders I opted for full breakfast the service was by a really friendly crew and one beautiful stunning young hostess caught my eye but that’s another story , anyway breakfast was served but no toast we wasn’t asked or offered any the breakfast itself was clean as a whistle and a nice runny egg probably the best VTWC breakfast I’ve had further tea coffee runs after oxenholme and carlisle I would give them 9/10 had I gotten toast it would be 10/10
The return journey was the 1840 departure from Glasgow to Euston I was travelling as far as Preston this was 390127 , alcoholic drinks / juice etc followed by food orders and cutlery upon departure from Glasgow I opted for the salt beef pie ,with a side of piccalilli now I am not a fan of piccalli by any means, anyway another friendly crew was working this service the pie arrived it was a full large one probably the size of 2 Holland’s potato pies combined and it wasn’t salty at all it was perfect and very tasty and I found myself delving into the piccalilli and it complemented it well this was washed down with Caple cider from the trolley followed by warm chocolate sponge with sticky toffee sauce now I would prefer it the other way round as the toffee sauce was overpowering the taste of the chocolate sponge it was nice though but the portion left a lot to be desired but was given a few uglies ( I have a sweet tooth and really like them )
Further alcoholic / juice run after Carlisle and Oxenholme a 10/10 for this train crew great service and nothing was missing
Boarded the 0815am Preston - Glasgow service ( 0531 ex Euston ) it was Pendino 390 002 the carriage is no different to the VTWC days
Soon as we left Preston we were offfered juice and tea/coffee followed by cutlery breakfast orders I opted for full breakfast the service was by a really friendly crew and one beautiful stunning young hostess caught my eye but that’s another story , anyway breakfast was served but no toast we wasn’t asked or offered any the breakfast itself was clean as a whistle and a nice runny egg probably the best VTWC breakfast I’ve had further tea coffee runs after oxenholme and carlisle I would give them 9/10 had I gotten toast it would be 10/10
The return journey was the 1840 departure from Glasgow to Euston I was travelling as far as Preston this was 390127 , alcoholic drinks / juice etc followed by food orders and cutlery upon departure from Glasgow I opted for the salt beef pie ,with a side of piccalilli now I am not a fan of piccalli by any means, anyway another friendly crew was working this service the pie arrived it was a full large one probably the size of 2 Holland’s potato pies combined and it wasn’t salty at all it was perfect and very tasty and I found myself delving into the piccalilli and it complemented it well this was washed down with Caple cider from the trolley followed by warm chocolate sponge with sticky toffee sauce now I would prefer it the other way round as the toffee sauce was overpowering the taste of the chocolate sponge it was nice though but the portion left a lot to be desired but was given a few uglies ( I have a sweet tooth and really like them )
Further alcoholic / juice run after Carlisle and Oxenholme a 10/10 for this train crew great service and nothing was missing
