Oxford train passengers have travelled back in time with an historic steam train journey - complete with a vintage menu including ox tongue.  

Vintage Trains organised for the special service from Oxford today (Friday, May 10), which featured the same lunch that was served when the train first ran on May 9, 1904. 

Pullman Class passengers on the “Great Western” also dined on cream of tomato soup, followed by a main course of cold ham, the cold ox tongue dish, Russian salad and potato salad.

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A pudding choice of fruit melba or cheese and biscuits, washed down with coffee, followed. 

The train was hauled by former British Railways Western Region locomotive Clun Castle, which was built at Swindon in 1950.

It left Birmingham at 8.30am, pulling in at Oxford at 10.48am. 

It then heading to Plymouth with an afternoon stop in Bristol.

The train will head back to Bristol and London Paddington tomorrow, before being hauled by a vintage diesel locomotive home to Birmingham.

The trip is being organised by Birmingham-based Vintage Railways, who organise various excursions across the Midlands.

A spokesman said the trip had taken passengers "back to the golden days of rail travel".

“Mention British Rail catering these days and people automatically think of a stale cheese sandwich served with a cup of lukewarm tea in a chipped cup," the spokesperson said. 

“But the food was actually rather good in Pullman Class back in 1904 and we’re sure none of our passengers will be disappointed.”