Description
The open second with miniature buffet was introduced for services where only limited light refreshments were needed, or where it would have been impractical to have a full restaurant/kitchen car serve snacks, and uneconomic to have a normal buffet car as well as a restaurant car. The layout is similar to a normal open second but the buffet occupies the space of two seating bays and divides the coach into two saloons of four and two bays, the latter being non-smoking. The otherwise identical D99 had Commonwealth bogies (Comet kit B13AK).
