Food on the Move

Last night Mr & Mrs Grumpy went out. Due to a special promotion through her employer we got a dinner trip on the Great Central Railway.
First, let me say this was a thoroughly enjoyable evening - good, plain food, in amiable surroundings, at a pretty fair cost (remembering the special promotion).

I was rather castigated by Mrs Grumpy for trying too hard to analyse the evening though. It wasn't really about trains - even though there was a proper steam engine pulling the genuine BR coaches; it wasn't about 'fine dining' (whatever that is) - even though the food was very good (particularly the vegetables and the sweet). It wasn't a romantic meal, or an opportunity for dancing the night away.
If the trip had been in almost any of the 8 months that the trip had been in daylight then the experience might well have been different, as it was, we sat over the Kinchley Lane viaduct completely in the dark, unable to see the reservoir!

A major grump of mine with the GCR was the astonishingly poor range of non-alcoholic drinks on the train - they seriously need to get on to the LoNo drinks company to get a proper selection of drinks for those of us that can't or don't want to drink alcohol.

However, as I said, a good evening out, and to be recommended. We might even be persuaded to consider their Murder Mystery trains, or even the New Years Eve trip!