#3379
Restaurant Miniature Buffet
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by York Works· from 1957· type of British Railways Mark 1 coach
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. British Rail Mark 1 RBR M1848: David Ingham from Bury, Lancashire, England· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Restaurant Miniature Buffet (or RMB) is a British Railways Mark 1 railway coach. It is a Tourist Standard Open (TSO) 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 (same side as the buffet counter) 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.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 69 years ago, in 1957.
- 19.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1957
- in service from
- 1957
- number built
- 82
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- York Works
- operators
- British Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 19.5 m
- capacity
- 44 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7316089, Wikipedia: Restaurant Miniature Buffet (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.