The institution of the New Zealand Railways Refreshment Room is indelibly associated with a rugby scrum to get your cup of tea and a pie or 'sammie' and then consume them in the 10 minutes or so that the train stood at the station platform.
However, this picture of the rooms at Marton suggests quite the opposite; a waited silver service even. Marton being the place where the Taranaki Line joins the North Island Main Trunk may have catered for passengers who had a bit of time to spend between trains.
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