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End of the line for dining cars?

Updated on 20 March 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.

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