Conversations were struck up between strangers, regular diners as well as infrequent customers, as if united by a sense of gratitude at the sheer unlikeliness of it all - a high achievement of industrial civilisation that deserved to remain for everyone, but which has now gone the way of the airship and the ocean liner. Much of the nostalgia concerning railways is partial, even false; not this.[ On British railway dining cars] .Simon Bradley
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When people complain about the loss of train dining cars on British railways, they are really nostalgic. They believe that trains feature a tradition of dining cars and that this is a nostalgic part of their life. In reality, trains have never been a place for eating. Trains were first designed to carry people from one place to another or from one industry to another.
As such, they have never been a place where people could dine on food. The concept of dining car on trains was invented during the First World War as a way for rich people to travel faster than the common man. Dining cars quickly became popular as they offered a place for people to eat and drink without being cramped up in a train carriage with other passengers.
However, nowadays trains have become more efficient and have become places where people can move faster too. For this reason, many people choose to travel by plane instead of by train.
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