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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 10 (January 1, 1937)

Passenger Carriage Design

Passenger Carriage Design.

Wonderful progress has been recorded in recent years in passenger carriage design. A development at Home is the buffet car, providing a quick service of light meals on trains where there is insufficient demand for a full restaurant service. Four new buffet cars have just been brought into use on the L.M. & S. line, between London and Manchester, York and Manchester, and Worcester and Manchester. Each carriage is 57ft. long, and has a kitchen and service counter at one end, with a quick-service cafeteria bar adjoining. The remainder of the interior is devoted to tables, of which there are four, seating four passengers each on one side of the car, and four seating two passengers each on the other, giving total seating accommodation for 24 persons. The chairs strike a new note in Home railway carriage furnishing, having chromium-steel tube frames, with red leather upholstery.

Other features of the cars include the employment of delicately-grained Empire timbers for the interior panelling, and the provision of deep, wide windows, affording an absolutely unrestricted outlook.

(Mae Kettel, photo.) The new Central Passenger Station, Geneva, Switzerland.

(Mae Kettel, photo.)
The new Central Passenger Station, Geneva, Switzerland.