Bahrain doesn’t have any railways – unless you know better? – and is not the most obvious place to find an ex-British Rail mark I buffet car. But there is one, and David Kelso took these pictures in March 2003. According to David It is being used as a restaurant. As you would expect I ate in it. The seating area has been left very much as it was but the buffet counter end has been modified as a servery rather than a stand up counter as it originally was.

Does anyone know what sort of MkI it is, or how it got to the middle east – and why?! I guess the strange construction on the end is meant to look like a steam loco.