A dining car (American English) or a restaurant car (British English), also known as diner, is a railroad passenger car. It is a place that provide meals to the passengers like sit-down restaurant.
In the setups, one end of the car contains a kitchen with a long walkway between seats next to it, and the other end has table or booth seating on either side of a center of it.
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Further reading
Notes on W.A.G.R.'s Dining Cars Watson, L.G. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, September 1982 pp194–213 On-train Catering in New South Wales - 1921-2001 Banger, Chris Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, March to July 2004 pp102–118;123-141;188-198;222-237;264-279
Other websites
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway No. 1474 Cochiti — photographs and short history of a Super Chief Dining Car built in 1936. Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society — restoration of two historic dining cars to recreate the dinner in the diner experience. Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway's dining car service https://web.archive.org/web/20141225025536/http://www.sta-dg.com/etransport/ - new dining car