The Food Programme: Off the Rails: The Story of Train Food

As the summer holidays kick off and people plan for journeys far and near, Sheila Dillon explores what food is provided on trains and at train stations across the country and beyond. A new report by the Office for Road and Rail suggests passengers pay almost 10 per cent more for food inside stations, where catering leases often roll over automatically with limited opportunities for new food businesses to enter the market. Sheila finds out who the biggest players are in rail food and speaks to a range of people from station operators, food retailers and train companies to find out whether train food is as bad as it once was