Cooking facilities in drivers cabs? Really?

[Bill EWS]

Some older locos had a heating element with a small oven below. You could heat things such as pies on them. Where there was only a heating ring, which only held a Tea Can you could heat a pie or whatever by wrapping it in tin foil and laying it on the ring at a low setting over a longish period. Heating rings usually have three settings. Low, Medium and High.

Some Tea Cans had a bit of a rim at the bottom which kept the bottom off the hot plate and would take ages to reach boiling point, if at all. This was usually solved by placing a coin on the hotplate that made contact with the base of the tea can.

 

[Spagnoletti]

As anyone will tell you, the Class 47 cooking rings were designed to rattle !

Not if they've got a brick on them

 

[JoeM]

In the plans for one of the 81-85 series in the recent Modern Locomotives illustrated a drivers cooker is pointed to...I am guessing it was part of the secondmans duties to make the tea/warm the pie etc

 

[sprinterguy]

I am guessing it was part of the secondmans duties to make the tea/warm the pie etc

Critical part of the job at one time I should imagine; keep your driver well serviced with warm drinks and the odd pie