End of the line for dining cars?

Link to the article: Channel 4

Last Modified: 20 Mar 2009
By: Samantha Haque

It was once a big part of the appeal of rail travel as a comfortable, even luxurious, experience, but it seems that the dining car is on the way out. More4 News reports.

The UK's main long-distance train companies are no longer required by their franchises to provide on-board dining, and now National Express, which is the last firm to provide a regular lunchtime service, is no longer bound by a clause in its contract and is "reviewing" its dining cars.

Passenger groups are less than chuffed, as Samantha Haque reports.