Could the dining car ever make a comeback.

What on earth possesed Mr Hollowood to say
"But this "Pall Mall club on wheels" is not to everyone's tastes. Russell Hollowood, curator at the National Railway Museum, believes that social attitudes have changed dramatically and that the restaurant car is a bastion of social divide and elitism that belongs firmly in the 1920s.
"Many people feel belittled by sitting in a restaurant worrying about whether they are holding the knife and fork correctly," he says. "I personally prefer to munch away on a sandwich in the privacy of an airline seat rather than being judged as you play footsie with the stranger sitting opposite"

To put it mildly he is talking utter tripe, whilst dining on the main operators services may be in the decline, does he appreciate how dining in First Class/Pullman style continues to thrive in the charter market, from the VSOE sorry Belmond Pulman, to trains run by the various charter firms, Vintage Trains, Railway Touring Company, West Coast Railway Co and Scottish Railway Preservation Society to name but a few, then there are all those who offer it on the many heritage railways across the country. Mr Hollowood you need to get out more often.

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