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restaurant car

n
(Railways) Brit a railway coach in which meals are served. Also called: dining car
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restaurant car

n (Brit Rail) → Speisewagen m
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restaurant car

n (Brit) (Rail) → vagone m ristorante
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The restaurant car will be detached at the next stop."
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And at six in the evening I was receiving the last of my many instructions through a window of the restaurant car.
It was only when I was on my way back to the hotel, by myself, because I couldn't talk to a soul for thinking of you, that on the spur of the moment I made the man take me to the station instead, and was under way in the restaurant car before I had time to think twice about it.
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Passenger Focus manager Guy Dangerfield said clearly some passengers will be disappointed that traditional restaurant cars will no longer be provided on East Coast trains.
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But claims the loss-making restaurant cars are to be axed are wide of the mark despite cost cutting earlier in the year taking the number of cars operating to 90.
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Troubled rail operator GNER today moved quickly to deny reports claiming it wants to axe its restaurant cars.
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