Category:Carriage Type RMB

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Carriage type RMB designates a BRBritish Rail or British Railways Mark 1 Restaurant Miniature Buffet, a coach designed to provide light snacks and refreshments, being staffed by only one attendant in service. The coach seats 44 passengers at tables, and also has bench seats opposite the serving area which occupies two full bays. Another bay on the same side of the coach as the buffet counter, but on the other side of the centre vestibule, is taken up by a store cupboard.

Following the introduction of TOPSTotal Operations Processing System, an American computer system adopted by BR from the late 1960s to number and manage rolling stock. in the late 1960s, BRBritish Rail or British Railways carriages of this class were allocated the TOPS code AN21, denoting:

A: Passenger carrying stock
N: Miniature Buffet or self service
2: Second, later standard class
1: BRBritish Rail or British Railways Mark 1 carriage

See also

List of Carriages

Pages in category ‘Carriage Type RMB’

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