Refreshment Coach

"Tea-rooms don't live in cakes!"

- Peter Sam

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, with no success, as she could not decide which of her favourite places to build it. Later, Rusty and Peter Sam discovered an old railway coach swept upon the tracks from a storm. 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.

Basis
The Refreshment Coach is based on the Talyllyn Railway No. 1-3 coaches. 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, Wales, UK.

Livery
The Refreshment Coach is painted yellow with red and thick blue lining. 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 letters on top. One end has a white, cloud-shaped sign listing the products sold in red. Its interior is painted white.

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 7 - The Refreshment Lady's Tea Shop

Trivia

 * The refreshment coach was made by recycling a model of a red narrow gauge coach.
 * The coach's dilapidated model was reused in the ninth series episodes, Skarloey the Brave, Duncan and the Old Mine, and Rheneas and the Dinosaur.

Merchandise

 * TrackMaster

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