The trains had no dining cars, so passengers ate in the Cascade Station dining hall with the workers.
Ask the dining car steward to see that he eats dinner on something better than candy bars.
Breakfast will soon be served in the dining car.
He raced back through two chair cars and a tourist sleeper, and he entered the dining car with an emphasis that kept the screen door swinging for a full half minute.
The dining car has resumed its restaurant appearance, and here is the wedding banquet, instead of the usual fare.
The train is no sooner off than the passengers go to the dining car.
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It was probably the lunch wagon's growing resemblance to a railwaydiningcarthat suggested the change of name to 'diner' around 1924.
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That is also characteristic of the newest style ofdiningcar.
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To provide adiningcarwould reduce the accommodation which is already heavily loaded.
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If the fire had occurred to the other diesel, next to thediningcar, it could have been very dangerous and have caused disaster.
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After all, a railwaydiningcaris an ancillary service on the train and should be under the same control.
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I found that the manager of thediningcarhas certain discretionary rights as to the sort of menu he puts on.
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There was nodiningcaron the train, but accommodation was reserved for some of the passengers.
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I have sometimes noticed that thediningcarattendants on that train come along to persuade one to take a meal.
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They were diesel-haul locos with buffet anddiningcarservices.
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However, anyone who has the good fortune to consume it in a railwaydiningcarwill find that it still costs 24p.
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I agree that they are expensive, but that is inevitable because it is a very expensive business to put on a meal in a railwaydiningcar.
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I even had the other day a letter from someone who sent me in some newspaper an old chicken served to him, he said, in thediningcar.
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If they think that 10 per cent, of the people in thediningcarhave paid out of their net income, it will be a pretty high score.
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It was not full during any part of the journey, and yet that third-class passenger was not allowed to have food because the third-classdiningcarwas full.
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They often have adiningcaror restaurant car to allow passengers to have a meal during the course of their journey.
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