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“Tea-rooms don't live in cakes!”
― Peter Sam[src]

The Refreshment Coach is a mobile shop in the form of a narrow gauge coach that is used by the Refreshment Lady to sell refreshments on the Skarloey Railway.

Biography

Peter Sam once tried to help the Refreshment Lady find a place for another tea room but with no success, as she could not decide which of her favourite places to build it.

After a storm the following night, Rusty and Peter Sam discovered an old railway coach which was being used as a shed had been swept onto the tracks. Peter Sam had the idea to make a mobile tea room and with Jem Cole's help, the old coach was restored. Peter Sam now proudly pulls the "Tea Shop Special" along the Skarloey Railway.[1]

Technical Details

Basis

The appearance of the Refreshment Coach is based on the Talyllyn Railway's coaches Nos. 1, 2 and 3, built by Brown, Marshalls and Co. Ltd. between 1866-67. The Red Narrow Gauge Coaches share the same basis.

The story of the Refreshment Coach was inspired by the Talyllyn Railway carriage No. 7, which was used as a refreshments van from 1963 to 1968. It was made from a small refreshment stand mounted on an old open-coach chassis at Abergynolwyn station.

Livery

The Refreshment Coach is painted yellow with blue lining and a grey roof. It has a red serving hatch on one side that swings up as an awning with a white, fold-out sign reading "REFRESHMENT" in red lettering with black drop shadow on top. One end has a white, cloud-shaped sign listing the products sold (tea, soft drinks, buns, sandwiches and ice cream) in red with black drop shadow. Its interior is painted white.

The coach's chassis is mostly black, with red buffer holds and a red stripe along the top of the solebar. A gold builder's plaque is also mounted on the side of the solebars.

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