Pace Yourself - photos of the final(?) Pacer countdown

[Owd Bob]

13-7-'20. 2.20pm.  Thought i'd seen a ghost today. 142 068 +150 146. Crow Nest Junc' Hindley. 

Edited July 13, 2020 by Owd Bob

[eastwestdivide]

I started this thread a year and a half ago with a Pacer photo at Penistone, and yesterday took my first train trip since March 2020, to Penistone. All services in the hands of 150s unsurprisingly, but I kind of missed the dreadful screech of them negotiating the S-bend into the platforms there.

Are they still hanging on in the NW, Wales and Devon?

[black and decker boy]

From postings elsewhere, South Wales sees the most workings currently.

Devon area has some diagrams too but always paired with a sprinter.

 

manchester area seems to be reduced to a handful of units in use and also always paired with a sprinter I think.

 

There is supposedly another increase in overall service levels being requested by DfT so whether this means more pacers, only time will tell.

[Owd Bob]

24-8-20. 2.20pm Hindley crows Nest Junc' 142 065.

 

[ColinK]

A reminder of where it started; one of my slides from 1982.

 

[eastwestdivide]

13 hours ago, ColinK said:

A reminder of where it started; one of my slides from 1982.

 

Whereabouts is that? I know that contraption got about the country quite a bit (or was it shunted from pillar to post?).

[boxbrownie]

Caught On TV  today, close enough maybe? 

[eastwestdivide]

Hmm, has bogies, too good for a pacer... 

[ColinK]

10 hours ago, eastwestdivide said:

Whereabouts is that? I know that contraption got about the country quite a bit (or was it shunted from pillar to post?).

 

It's at All Stretton and the unit was working a Central Wales line service.

[boxbrownie]

17 hours ago, eastwestdivide said:

Hmm, has bogies, too good for a pacer... 

Very true.......it was a special “Hybrid” secret development model 

[uax6]

On 03/09/2020 at 11:50, boxbrownie said:

Caught On TV  today, close enough maybe? 

 

Surely its a 3xx emu that was used on Merseyside? Its got the yellow panel coming around the front in that swoopy thing that matches the body profile....

 

AndyG

[eastwestdivide]

A 2+3 car 144 just came south, running empty from Heaton to Worksop, for storage or sale or scrap? I think some have been roaded out of Worksop to new owners or the scrappie.

Bad photo to follow if ever I get my camera working.

[uax6]

I heard that the Mid Norfolk took delivery of a Pacer today, does anyone know which one please?

 

Andy G

[Owd Bob]

9-9-20. 11.14am. Unidentified 142 probably 065 or 068, meet 66 155 & 66 167 at Crows Nest Junc' Nr. Hindley Lancs'

[jpendle]

7 hours ago, Owd Bob said:

9-9-20. 11.14am. Unidentified 142 probably 065 or 068, meet 66 155 & 66 167 at Crows Nest Junc' Nr. Hindley Lancs'

 

Any idea what the 66's were doing there? Other than heading towards Wigan 

 

Thanks,

 

John P

[eastwestdivide]

9 minutes ago, jpendle said:

Any idea what the 66's were doing there? Other than heading towards Wigan

Realtimetrains has a light engine movement 0944 Peak Forest to Wigan at the right time, which is half an answer.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/R01381/2020-09-09/detailed

 

and there was a similar return working later in the day. Fuelling perhaps?

[Owd Bob]

Not sure what the 66 runs are in aid of but there have been quite a few every morning all this week except for Mon' and with return runs in the late afternoon and evenings, not all were at the times as stated on Realtime trains. I saw three 66's within half an hour on Weds' morn'All in all it made a nice surprise for me at this location and i've kopped a few 66's this week.

[Busmansholiday]

Today I've been on this;

I'd forgotten how bad they were.

[boxbrownie]

10 hours ago, Busmansholiday said:

 

 

I'd forgotten how bad they were.

Quite a pretty face though 

[Claude_Dreyfus]

On 11/09/2020 at 00:34, uax6 said:

I heard that the Mid Norfolk took delivery of a Pacer today, does anyone know which one please?

 

Andy G

 

142061

[mpb56125]

142 078 at Chester with a working to Manchester Piccadilly via Northwich.

 

 

 

Mark

[eastwestdivide]

So Northern are still using a few 142s in conjunction with 150s, but only in the NW I think. 
Meanwhile, someone’s photographed a new 195 on a Hope Valley service at New Mills. Bit of an upgrade!

https://twitter.com/robertlargan/status/1306988248317784064

 

[eastwestdivide]

After years of catching one nearly every time I go on the train locally, I can't believe it's been six months since I even saw one.

 

Here's 144001 at Rotherham Parkgate back on 29 Feb 2020:

 

[Slight upload problem first time - "upload failed" - but there's an undeleteable empty frame left over]

[eastwestdivide]

Two 144s, 002 and 005, worked from Keighley KWVR-Worksop today (8 Oct 2020), via the Rotherham-Woodburn Jn freight line past the Magna centre, here disappearing into the undergrowth literally a minute before the RHTT leaf spraying train came the other way:

Edited October 8, 2020 by eastwestdivide
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[mpb56125]

142089 at Eastleigh Works on 8th October 2020

 

 

142018 at Rainford on 28th October 2020.

 

142058 at Upholland on 28th October 2020

 

 

Mark