Restaurant Miniature Buffet


The Restaurant Miniature Buffet is a British Railways Mark 1 railway coach. It is a Tourist Standard Open coach with two full seating bays next to the centre transverse vestibule removed and replaced with a buffet counter and customers standing space, and one bay on one side removed and replaced with a store cupboard on the other side of the centre vestibule. They were built in five lots from 1957 to 1962.
Lot No.DiagramBuiltBuilderQtyFleet numbersNotes
30485971957–1958York121801–1812No store cupboard, 48 seats, BR1 Bogies
30507981960Wolverton151838–18521851 fitted with B5 Bogies for EMU use, the rest fitted with Commonwealth bogies
30520991960Wolverton251813–1837Commonwealth bogies
30670991961–1962Wolverton121853–1864Commonwealth bogies
30702991962Wolverton181865–1882Commonwealth bogies

Quite a few still operate on the national network on Railtours, but not on service trains. A lot have made it into railway preservation and are used by many heritage railways in the UK. Even though the first batch had no store cupboard 1807 on the Watercress has been fitted with one and B4 Bogies.