Today's random discovery

[brooksmoses]

"[In] Great Britain, many Victorian-era locomotives were specially equipped to prepare tea."

Because of course they were. You're driving a thing that is basically a large tea kettle, obviously you will want tea at some point, a convenient solution is obvious.

Comments

[abracanabra]

Obvious and practical, indeed!

[conuly]

Equally fascinating: UK WWII tanks were also equipped to prepare tea.

[tiger_spot]

I want one.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

For thirty-some years I had a scar on my wrist, from where as a very small boy I walked into a train guard on Oxford Station. He'd just stepped down off the footplate of a locomotive, carrying a kettle of boiling water. QED.