Pizza delivered to train.

[Cherry_Picker]

Saw this elsewhere on the internet earlier and it made me smile:

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1k5oa9/hey_pizza_hut_can_you_deliver_me_pizza_im_on_a_4/ < words.

http://imgur.com/a/jXUlz < pictures.


Pretty sure it happened today, and it's in the UK but I don't recognise the station. I'm sure that railforums can identify the station in two minutes, so over to you guys...

 

[Mojo]

Looks like Newport (S Wales) to me

 

[kar3emosman]

OP confirmed it's Newport (SW)

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/commen...ut_can_you_deliver_me_pizza_im_on_a_4/cblnofv

 

[43167]

Not the 1st time. I believe this happened at York towards the end of Valenta-powered HST's on Grand Central one night.

 

[O L Leigh]

+1. Looks very much like platform 4 at Newport, although it might be a couple of days before I can confirm that.

There is a little café at Beeston that has a board on the platform, at the top of which used to be a message to train drivers giving instructions how to place an order in advance and a telephone number. I believe that the owner has changed the board now so that the message no longer appears and am not sure how many drivers took advantage of the service being advertised, but I was always a little nervous about how it would look having a bacon roll and tea delivered through the cab door.

O L Leigh

 

[Ebore]

Not the 1st time. I believe this happened at York towards the end of Valenta-powered HST's on Grand Central one night.

Also happened at Lancaster http://youtu.be/jFKb1YXFsQE

 

[BestWestern]

Romsey has a very nice little cafe on the down platform and crews regularly phone ahead to order their breakfast. On the early services with the usual squadron of staff travelling passenger it can be quite an order! I really don't think the punters mind!

 

[Silv1983]

I prefer Domino's myself. Pizza Hut is too greasy :P

 

[HSTfan!!!]

Pizza Hut in Newport won't even deliver to my house less than 2 miles away, must be lucky lol

 

[wensley]

I am informed that the Station Cafe at Brighouse have always been very good at delivering on request to traincrew! I certainly know they do a cracking bacon buttie

 

[Vicpaul]

Local kebab/Indian gaff at Preston always delivered to the sleeper

 

[AlexS]

+1. Looks very much like platform 4 at Newport, although it might be a couple of days before I can confirm that.

There is a little café at Beeston that has a board on the platform, at the top of which used to be a message to train drivers giving instructions how to place an order in advance and a telephone number. I believe that the owner has changed the board now so that the message no longer appears and am not sure how many drivers took advantage of the service being advertised, but I was always a little nervous about how it would look having a bacon roll and tea delivered through the cab door.

O L Leigh

I wouldn't worry, the drivers on most Intercity TOCS operating HSTs seem to do it all the time with provisions from the catering vehicle. The guard regularly delivers tea to your lot anyway when there's a crew change!

I once popped up to the driver of a 170 on getting off a train Central days and she had a full Chinese takeaway in various containers arranged around the controls very carefully

 

[Pacerpilot]

We used to ring the Pizza place at Trowbridge station from the messroom at Westbury. Gave them our order, arrival time and what denomination of notes we had, and they'd meet the train with pizza/kebab and the correct change. Not tried since I moved over to the freight.....yet.

 

[Andrewlong]

Saw this elsewhere on the internet earlier and it made me smile:

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1k5oa9/hey_pizza_hut_can_you_deliver_me_pizza_im_on_a_4/ < words.

http://imgur.com/a/jXUlz < pictures.


Pretty sure it happened today, and it's in the UK but I don't recognise the station. I'm sure that railforums can identify the station in two minutes, so over to you guys...

Pizza in a confined space - that must have ponged!

 

[talltim]

I've had Pizza Hut delivered to the park before

 

[NorthernSpirit]

I am informed that the Station Cafe at Brighouse have always been very good at delivering on request to traincrew! I certainly know they do a cracking bacon buttie

Aye I've seen a member of staff leg it down to the platform with the traincrews grub. Decent cafe, excellent staff. Considering that roughtly nine years back a mate of mine use to run it.

 

[trentside]

I once offered to redeem a free coffee for a colleague at Pumpkin - the service was slow, and the train slightly late, cue me walking out to see the train departing. I did at least manage to salute the guard with his free coffee while he was leaning out the window observing the departure. Fortunately, I wasn't aiming to rejoin the same train

As for the Pizza, could have done with that on Friday night - when I got horribly delayed returning from Manchester via a rather circuitous route (due to a delay that would have missed a connection!).

 

[gordonthemoron]

I seem to remember someone having a curry delivered to an EC service at York

 

[tony6499]

It was a regular thing for crew working the Victoria to Bournemouth services to ring the Curry house on the platform at Swanwick and have their dinners delivered to the train there.

 

[Antman]

There is an Indian restuarant in the old station building at Snodland (on the Medway Valley Line) and I've seen a takeaway delivered to a passenger on a train there before.

 

[merlodlliw]

I've had Pizza Hut delivered to the park before

I preferred the Cornish Pasties filmed being delivered to a FGW HST in 2011.

 

[david_VI]

Are you allowed to eat meals in the cab at work?

 

[welshpax]

I have done this a few times in the past, last time I did it was on the Highland sleeper last year, had a pizza delivered to Crewe so I could take it back to my cabin )

 

[Galvanize]

I know a group of lads who got pizza delivered while they were on a railtour, ordered it half an hour before they arrived at one of the leg stretching/photo stops, and sure enough, when the train arrived, the pizza delivery was waiting outside the station!

 

[Pacerpilot]

Are you allowed to eat meals in the cab at work?

Thats what the hotplate is there for

 

[ainsworth74]

Are you allowed to eat meals in the cab at work?

Surely no different to eating lunch at your desk?

Also just to avoid the impression that all rail staff eat unhealthily I did once see a Northern Rail driver munching their way through a fruit salad during a run along the Darlington - Saltburn line.

 

[BestWestern]

Are you allowed to eat meals in the cab at work?

Probably best not to do it on an assessment ride!

 

[Tomonthetrain]

As a passenger I've had a full English delivered to my train. I arrived the same time as it and boarded the train consuming it...three minutes later I had to get off and finish it at Stourbridge Junction waiting for the chiltern silver set

 

[causton]

Surely no different to eating lunch at your desk?

Also just to avoid the impression that all rail staff eat unhealthily I did once see a Northern Rail driver munching their way through a fruit salad during a run along the Darlington - Saltburn line.

I can barely walk while eating, let alone run while eating! And running along train tracks too! ... :roll:

I have ordered a takeaway to a pub before because their kitchen was closed, but they let me have cutlery! And I'm pretty sure I've seen people do it on the late night trains back home from King's Cross...

 

[1e10]

Any idea what service this particular woman was on?