Dining car on the Westwood & Loscoe Light Railway.
Show Us Your Dining Cars
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Narrow Minded
Show Us Your Dining Cars
With the sad announcement that dining services are to be withdrawn from the ECML, show us that you are maintaining the tradition for your passengers!
Dining car on the Westwood & Loscoe Light Railway.
Dining car on the Westwood & Loscoe Light Railway.
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MDLR
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DolwyddelanLightRail
Re: Show Us Your Dining Cars
Which now probabaly the only thing you can get now travelling with a BR pass is just a cup of tea at a pushNarrow Minded:53835 wrote:With the sad announcement that dining services are to be withdrawn from the ECML, show us that you are maintaining the tradition for your passengers!
and back on topic, all i have is the station cafe! Funds currently arent availible for a dining car as of yet! 
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laalratty
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Pendo Pilot
Re: Show Us Your Dining Cars
To quote the late great Jim Morrison who sang "The West (Coast mainline) is the best" in one of his tracks with the doors........Narrow Minded:53835 wrote:With the sad announcement that dining services are to be withdrawn from the ECML, show us that you are maintaining the tradition for your passengers!
Well here's one of my dining car's.....
(although not this one exactly as this is the bottom end of pendo 33, the Greyrigg set).
But I can confess that brekkie is nice...
(Best use of secondmans seat ever unless the TM is one of the fit girlys..)
:twisted: Back to the CVLR, well it is an arses on seats kind of railway & I will admit they have no dininig coaches at all. Packed lunches being the order of the day.
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Narrow Minded
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Pendo Pilot
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Narrow Minded
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Pendo Pilot
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Pendo Pilot
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Narrow Minded
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IrishPeter
The line that is the inspiration for my latest endeavours, the RTM, had a steel bodied 15 metre dining car which survives at Ouddorp and is being restored. I seem to think it was built in the early 1930s and was, technically speaking, a rebuild of an earlier vehicle. At the moment Ouddorp is building a replica of the last of the RTM Box Locos No.37, which survived into the late 50s, but not into preservation after 1966.
From the odds and ends I have gleaned about RTM engineering and accountancy practices the Dining Car may have been almost a new vehicle, but because of restrictions on the capital account it may have been put through the books as a rebuild. This tendancy got stronger in the 1950s after NS took a large stake in the RTM. They were only interested in the Tramway's bus services, so any expenditure on new equipment for the rail side of operations had to be hidden in plain sight, as NS had little interest in seeing the narrow gauge operations continue.
If my line ever runs to a catering vehicle it is most likely to be wooden bodied 13 metre carriage adapted into a 'bar car' for dishing out the cold Heineken and snacks to homeward bound commuters. :D
My other favourite railway - the IMR has a bar set adapted from three of the 1905 saloons in the early 1980s. Of the 1905 build of carriages the six saloons survive, but the two brake-luggage-thirds "half vans' have been broken up
Indeed of the half-vans only F43 and F49 survive, most of the others have gone since Nationalisation in 1978.
Peter in AZ
From the odds and ends I have gleaned about RTM engineering and accountancy practices the Dining Car may have been almost a new vehicle, but because of restrictions on the capital account it may have been put through the books as a rebuild. This tendancy got stronger in the 1950s after NS took a large stake in the RTM. They were only interested in the Tramway's bus services, so any expenditure on new equipment for the rail side of operations had to be hidden in plain sight, as NS had little interest in seeing the narrow gauge operations continue.
If my line ever runs to a catering vehicle it is most likely to be wooden bodied 13 metre carriage adapted into a 'bar car' for dishing out the cold Heineken and snacks to homeward bound commuters. :D
My other favourite railway - the IMR has a bar set adapted from three of the 1905 saloons in the early 1980s. Of the 1905 build of carriages the six saloons survive, but the two brake-luggage-thirds "half vans' have been broken up
Indeed of the half-vans only F43 and F49 survive, most of the others have gone since Nationalisation in 1978.Peter in AZ
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