buffet car
noun1
Rail transport, Railways, Transport A railway carriage in which food and drink can be bought at a counter, and either taken to another carriage or consumed at the seating provided.
- Near-synonyms: refreshment car, club car (broadly synonymous)
- A small ornamental panel displayed the Great Central's slogan, "Each Express is Vestibuled and has a Buffet Car attached." The buffet car is now being successfully exploited again by the L.N.E.R., but it is only last May that this facility returned to its parent line after a long absence.1934 February, B. K. Cooper, “Some Great Central Reflections”, in Railway Magazine, page 83: