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Author Topic: Huge Biscuit Order ahead of Club 55 Promotion  (Read 3720 times)
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« on: September 15, 2011, 14:16:33 »

Colleagues at a certain depot in the south west tell me that 12,000 extra boxes of biscuits have been ordered  to pre-empt added demand when the Club 55 Promotion kicks in.  Similar amounts of fruit cake have also been stockpiled.  For the uninitiated, Club 55 offers unlimited freebie snacks for first class passengers of a 'certain age'. It also gives them discounted rail travel.   Grin
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« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2011, 16:09:39 »

Just a shame there aren't any offers to attract someone with a lifetime of rail travel ahead of them into first class to taste the biscuits and fruit cake Sad
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2011, 06:54:40 »

Just a shame there aren't any offers to attract someone with a lifetime of rail travel ahead of them into first class to taste the biscuits and fruit cake Sad

Totally fair comment.  Trouble is, the company would need to serve burgers and fizzy drinks to that section of the market.
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« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2011, 07:45:39 »

Just a shame there aren't any offers to attract someone with a lifetime of rail travel ahead of them into first class to taste the biscuits and fruit cake Sad

Are you sure?
Fifty year old, walk up peak first class Chippenham to Paddington ^109.50
Fifteen year old, walk up peak first class Chippenham to Paddington ^54.75
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« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2011, 08:21:27 »

Fifty year old, walk up peak first class Chippenham to Paddington ^109.50
Fifteen year old, walk up peak first class Chippenham to Paddington ^54.75
True, but I was referring mainly to those in the 16-25 railcard category, who receive no discount in first class (except for Advance fares).
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« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2011, 13:57:47 »

weekend first  Grin
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« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2011, 15:23:21 »

Just a shame there aren't any offers to attract someone with a lifetime of rail travel ahead of them into first class to taste the biscuits and fruit cake Sad

Are you sure?
Fifty year old, walk up peak first class Chippenham to Paddington ^109.50
Fifteen year old, walk up peak first class Chippenham to Paddington ^54.75

It's not really representative though.

When I was 15 I didn't really have ^55 to splash about and I doubt many other 15 year olds do!
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« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2011, 07:02:13 »

weekend first  Grin

No fruitcake for Weekend First.  Biccies take a bashing tho  Grin
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« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2011, 14:47:32 »

i will send you some sidmouth residents .... many of which could be classed as fruitcakes
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« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2011, 23:27:47 »

Careful - you, too, might be bundled aboard as one of them ...  Grin
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« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2011, 23:59:03 »

i will send you some sidmouth residents .... many of which could be classed as fruitcakes

Aged in Brandy no doubt.
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« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2011, 08:32:32 »

Careful - you, too, might be bundled aboard as one of them ...  Grin

me a fruitcake?  no apparently im a nut case
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