sem34090 Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 So, the jokey thread! More about my reasoning for this thread may be found here - All ridiculous and silly suggestions please! I'm looking forward to this... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted July 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2019 A few of us have already had our say. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted July 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2019 Best further use? Bonfire night. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpendle Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Convert them back to buses. John P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 I was wondering if the horrific reality might be the sight of grounded pacers across the country for years to come, replacing the traditional BR 12T Vent Van and 4/6 Wheeled coach in a variety of domestic and agricultural settings. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted July 12, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) I note in the serious thread a suggestion they could be used as mobile restaurants with menus geared towards local delicacies. In Cornwall the Bodmin & Wenford could run Pasty Pacers. Edited July 12, 2019 by rab 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted July 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2019 The nation's hens deserve these sooner rather than later. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) Won't they just end up running in eastern Europe for the next thousand years; that's what seems to happen to old French autorails (though Caravelles were probably a lot more desirable than Pacers) http://www.railweb.ch/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016-09-15-Interregional-Calatori-IRC-Bistrita-Lama.jpg There is a well established rule of thumb that seems to work internationally that if you replace a train service with buses you lose about two thirds of the passengers (In the 1950s and 60s this was often seen as a good thing because fewer passengers required less subsidy, more people using cars was good for the motot industry and railways were old fashioned) That leads me to wonder how many passengers, if any, were lost by replacing proper trains with Pacers- (and yes I am aware that they were a stopgap alternative to completely closing services when BR had been left woefully short of rolling stock) Edited July 12, 2019 by Pacific231G image 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted July 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2019 Completely destroy relationships with Iran and send them a whole ship load of pacers. I bet the Iranian Revolutionary Guard will desperately try to turn the ship back lol. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) Erm... Already been done!!! We did that with the 141s, so I suppose it could work with later Pacers!!! There's a prototype for everything, it'd seem... Edited July 12, 2019 by sem34090 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Paint them umber and use them to replace the royal train once the Windsors have travelled more than 50 miles from London. A cross platform change of trains would not be too much for HRH and her ever expanding family. They may begin to understand what the phrase "it's grim up north" might actually mean in a railway conext. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesperus Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 They were built on a high speed wagon chassis so convert them to powered wagons. They could then be used for wagonload freight on branchs that would be tricky to work with a loco and shunt themselves into a convenient block train for the rest of the journey. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Use them to build a Stonehenge replica in Yrkshire, so that northerners too can have a laugh at people with a shaky grasp of neolithic religious history and a penchant for wearing bedsheets. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted July 13, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 13, 2019 Convert them to mobile Fish'n'Chip shops and run them on routes with population centres but minimal evening services, stopping for half an hour at each station. A different route each evening perhaps. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Flog em to Irish Rail ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 15 hours ago, PatB said: Use them to build a Stonehenge replica in Yrkshire, so that northerners too can have a laugh at people with a shaky grasp of neolithic religious history and a penchant for wearing bedsheets. Nose first, in the style of this?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Ranch 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 (edited) On 12/07/2019 at 22:04, jonny777 said: Paint them umber and use them to replace the royal train once the Windsors have travelled more than 50 miles from London. A cross platform change of trains would not be too much for HRH and her ever expanding family. They may begin to understand what the phrase "it's grim up north" might actually mean in a railway conext. In a similar vein, perhaps the company that runs the Orient Express, Grand Hibernian etc could launch a unit with a luxuriously fitted interior and sleeping area as ‘The Belmond Great British Pacer Experience’, spending several days travelling around the north of England (and occasionally Cornwall) but charging a ridiculously high price. Edited July 13, 2019 by 009 micro modeller 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 26 minutes ago, 009 micro modeller said: Nose first, in the style of this?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Ranch That was certainly in my mind at the time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Perhaps we should launch one into space? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 (edited) Fill them full of troops (so you'll only need a couple to take the modern British Army...) and send them across the channel to invade France and to free Europe from Hitler's Tyranny? Oh wait, I'm 75 Years, 1 Month and 8 Days too late for that... Edited July 13, 2019 by sem34090 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 3 minutes ago, 009 micro modeller said: Perhaps we should launch one into space? That's be right. Elon Musk launches a romantically intrepid lone (dummy) astronaut on an infinite road trip in a red roadster, and the UK replies by sending up a Pacerful of grumpy commuters complaining about leaks and rattles. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted July 13, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 13, 2019 2 minutes ago, PatB said: That's be right. Elon Musk launches a romantically intrepid lone (dummy) astronaut on an infinite road trip in a red roadster, and the UK replies by sending up a Pacerful of grumpy commuters complaining about leaks and rattles. Pmsl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Make the Americans suffer them? 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted July 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 14, 2019 15 hours ago, sem34090 said: Make the Americans suffer them? Close but no cigar. The set (142090) went to Vancouver, BC, Canada for a railfair and used on a shuttle service to no great success. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 2 hours ago, jools1959 said: Close but no cigar. The set (142090) went to Vancouver, BC, Canada for a railfair and used on a shuttle service to no great success. LEV2 prototype Pacer went to the US though: https://mobile.twitter.com/leeelkwright/status/506159543844622336 I think this was a unique larger and longer version and it did briefly run a proper service. More info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_railbuses Apologies for this post. Given that I wrote it and it’s in the silly Pacer thread it’s uncharacteristically factual and sensible in two ways. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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