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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
@threadinburgh.scot

In the good/bad old days of British Rail's orange plastic Traveller's Fare branding, Waverley had the Talisman Buffet and the bar was called the Nor' Loch. I imagine they were probably actually more civilised than modern offerings. www.flickr.com/photos/18578...

flickr.comEdinburgh Waverley station, 17 Feb 1981The Talisman buffet with its violent orange decor contrasts with the handsome stonework of the late Victorian two-storey buildings in the main waiting area. The plastic orange seating roundel complete...
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵@threadinburgh.scot

Waverley's station pub on the other hand is just embarrassing

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
@threadinburgh.scot

As always @mikeyashworth.bsky.social has the goods if you want to know what was on offer from Travellers Fare. Think I'll start with a 13p fruit juice, have a 51p Bacon Egg and Sausage with a side of cream potatoes and mixed salad (34p) and finish off with 3p of cream: www.flickr.com/photos/36844...

flickr.comTravellers-Fare tariff : price list : British Rail : nd [c.1975] : tariffA shiny British Rail "Travellers-Fare" menu card that likely dates from the mid-1970; the only evidence comes from the one item that definately was not to be available on the menu and that was the BR ...
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
@threadinburgh.scot

It should be easy to find pictures of the inside of Waverley Station in the 1980s, but it's not because everyone with a camera was pointing it at a train or something. But if you can look past the Deltic "Alycidon" here we can see the welcoming orange plastic canopy of the Talisman Buffet.

Brian McRoberts
@brimcrob.bsky.social

Brings back a few hazy memories of being 15, getting off the train from Fife and trying to get served a pint of lager. The staff were too busy trying to kick out the drunks to care. Those orange seats were awful as well..You would slide out of them more often or not.