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

[ColinK]

On 23/08/2021 at 13:30, Steven B said:

I've often thought they'd have been better if they'd been articulated, sitting on three bogies.

 

Steven B.

Now that’s a good idea for something to do with your old Hornby pacer fleet.

[Ray M]

1 half of 144001, Huddersfield Station.

[sir douglas]

about 2 months ago the pacer at Foxfield had many of its windows smashed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-61770075

[4630]

Keeping a Pacer alive for passengers to experience in the future, 144011, in the Metro Trains livery of the former West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, stands in the siding adjacent to Haworth Shed on 27th March 2023.

 

 

The photo was taken from the verandah of a brake van that was being used on an arranged photo shoot along the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.

[Northmoor]

6 hours ago, 4630 said:

Keeping a Pacer alive for passengers to experience in the future, 144011, in the Metro Trains livery of the former West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, stands in the siding adjacent to Haworth Shed on 27th March 2023.

 

 

The photo was taken from the verandah of a brake van that was being used on an arranged photo shoot along the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.

Thanks for clarifying, or I'd have been on the lookout for a 12' tall railway photographer........

 

I remain cynical about the preservation of so many Pacers - it's easy to start preserving free rolling stock, keeping it in presentable condition is the real challenge - but if anyone can maintain one as a working exhibit of a late 20th century local train, the KWVR will be them.

[Steven B]

17 hours ago, Northmoor said:

it's easy to start preserving free rolling stock, keeping it in presentable condition is the real challenge

 

Keeping them presentable is little different to keeping any other loco or multiple unit presentable. At leasts they're mechanically and electrically quite simple. A bigger challenge will be later locos and MU's get preserved with their more complicated electronics. It's a lot easier to keep something moving safely when it can be fixed with a hammer & spanner.

 

Steven B.