Editing Automat (section)

== Rail transport ==
A form of the automat was used on some [[passenger train]]s. The [[Great Western Railway]] in the United Kingdom announced plans in December 1945 to introduce an automat on [[buffet car]]s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Automat Buffet Cars For British Railways|publisher=Reuters|date=26 December 1945}}</ref> Plans were delayed by impending [[British Rail#Nationalisation in 1948|nationalisation]], but an automat was finally introduced on the ''[[Cambrian Coast Express]]'' in 1962.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=The Railway Gazette|title=Railway Gazette|page=709|volume=119|year=1963}}</ref>

In the United States, the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] introduced an automat between [[New York Penn Station]], and [[Washington Union Station]], in 1954.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Automatic Buffet-Bar Car Introduced By Pennsy|journal=Locomotive Engineers Journal|page=236|volume=88|publisher=Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers|date=1954}}</ref> [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific Railroad]] introduced automat [[buffet car]]s on the ''[[Coast Daylight (SP train)|Coast Daylight]]'' and ''[[Sunset Limited]]'' in 1962. [[Amtrak]] converted four buffet cars to automats in 1985 for use on the [[Auto Train]]. 

In Switzerland, the [[Bodensee–Toggenburg railway|Bodensee–Toggenburg Bahn]] introduced automat buffet cars in 1987.<ref>{{cite book |title=Jane's World Railways |publisher=Jane's Yearbooks |year=1988 |isbn=0-7106-0871-3 |editor-last=Allen |editor-first=Geoffrey Freeman |page=700}}</ref>

With the advent of air travel and other forms of transportation, automats on trains became less popular and were eventually phased out. The last automat in use on a train in the United States was on the short-lived ''[[Lake Country Limited]]'' in 2001.