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Given all the chat about Train drinks, I thought what a good idea to start a new thread …. Here are some of my recent ones 
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Kings X to Leeds, dining carriage for supper. This is going back to the late '90’s and such luxuries are now long gone.
Cream of broccoli soup, followed by fillet steak & mash, finishing with chocolate cheesecake. With (small drum-roll please) a half bottle of Ch Musar. Coffee and chocolates to finish, all for under £20 on expenses.
Ah… them were the days. Put me off Musar though, the brett experience wasn’t for me.
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Were there delays on your journey back to Newcastle this week? Four bottles is really going some!
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Only had a taste from each bottle , not all the bottle … there was 3 of us so had the train broken down we would have been alright 
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I was half expecting you to have special ‘proper’ wine glasses for train journeys. Maybe Riedel needs to introduce transport-specific glasses to go with the variety-specific ones. A slightly different glass depending on whether you are drinking on a train, bus or hovercraft.
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Such a good idea !
Those society pet bottles good for train journeys
Once had a little too much red while travelling the length of France by train to go climbing
Indeed - and hopefully avoid the embarrassment of trying to pull a cork discretely in a crowded carriage.
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Railway companies are missing a trick…they should sell wines in a can
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The Wildsong particularly well modelled 
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A friend of mine (with whom I occasionally travel) has developed a “train Martini”, working out the exact dilution and how long it can stay at the right temperature in a flask. She also brings a selection of garnishes (and last time we travelled together another thermos with some extra vermouth in for me, as I like my Martini pretty wet).
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Oh for the days of the Pullman dining cars with real food and ex-Merchant Navy stewards! The carriages had names in those days - I recall Heron and Swift in the cream and brown livery.
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I always think one of the peaks of sophistication is pulling a cork with a Swiss army knife on a train speeding through the French countryside. Specially if you have a spread of cheeses and good bread.
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Not all hero’s wear capes 
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One of our journeys managed to combine one of the best wine experiences with one of the worst.
Years ago we celebrated my wife’s birthday with a trip to Venice, returning on the Orient Express. The journey home was fantastic, with champagne brunch as we passed through the Dolomites in the sunshine. Food, wine and service were impeccable the whole way.
Until we reached Boulogne.
There, we were handed over to a couple of British stewardesses who could have just walked out of a Victoria Wood/Julie Walters sketch. Our crossing had been diverted from Boulogne to Calais, so we had to get on a coach. In order to keep us happy, they popped off somewhere to get some wine. Returning with plastic cups, they handed round bottles of room temperature white Blossom Hill. Not quite the luxury experience.
On our delayed arrival at Folkestone for the train back to London, we thought they might have changed the menu from the planned cream tea, as it was by now 8 in the evening. Champagne and smoked salmon perhaps? Nope. Cream tea it was. Disappointing end to a wonderful experience.
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Many years ago I was ‘tutted’ at for eating cheese on a Swiss train !
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I imagine it might depend on the cheese!
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We had a much better Orient Express experience (at least regarding the wine). All was fine until we got to Brixton, at which point the main signal box was hit by lightning and all trains were stopped. After a while we persuaded the steward to bring out the Champagne. After more of a while, we persuaded him to bring out the GOOD Champagne. A couple of Germans looked on in amazement and asked why we didn’t complain… Eventually the train was able to set back to Denmark Hill, just down the road from our then home, and my wife caught a bus home. Unfortunately our luggage (brought by van from Calais) was already at Victoria, so I had to suffer a coach ride into central London and then get a taxi back.
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I can recommend Business Class on Eurostar for a positive train-based wine drinking experience, particularly if you are on the lunch service.
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Not quite transport specific, but they have given it some thought…
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