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'Mourning' the end of the restaurant car

It is the end of an era on the East Coast main line railway as dinner service has been called for the last time.

The BBC's Mike Thomson reports from London's Kings Cross Station.

Michael Williams, author of On the Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys, considers the future of railway dining.


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