Ex-Northern Class 142, 142055, is set to enter service for the first time since it entered its preservation life in 2020.
The new home for 142055 is the Cambrian Heritage Railway at Oswestry in Shropshire.
Services on the 6th of October are expected to operate every 30 minutes between 11 am and 4 pm. Tickets will cost £6 for adults and £4 for children.
Trains will depart Llynclys but no service will run between Oswestry and Weston Wharf.
You can find out more information over on the Cambrian Heritage Railway website.
Responses
For all who hate Pacers, bear in mind that they will illustrate to future generations the state of the railways in the 1980s. They may be rotten to travel in, but were (IMO) much better with high backed seats rather than the original bus seats.
Without them many lines which today have better trains could have been closed altogether. It’s important that future generations can see the history and give thanks that we didn’t get a “Beeching 2”.
I feel the rattles coming on
Hated them in service,would not dream of going on one
I LOVE Leyland National buses and these are based on them and ive never been on one so its good that they are being preserved i think Mid Norfolk Railway has one too. i really would like to go on one Nothing wrong with them at all better than old Southern Region Rattling Relic slam door EPBs
If you’ve never been on a Pacer then I think you’re in for a nasty surprise when you do ride on one. They ride nothing like Leyland National buses because each unit has only 4 wheels with rudimentary suspension so they rattle and jerk and bump over even the best maintained railway tracks. They also have real issues navigating any but the gentlest curved tracks because of their lack of bogies. The Southern Region EPBs ran MUCH more smoothly than Pacers.
Pacers ran badly and fractured the spines of the best of men who rode them on continuous welded rail, let alone 60ft fishplated track. Noone really liked these things, how theyve infested the preserved rail scene because theyre “cheap to run” or cheaper than Diesel/Steam engines. People pay good money for proper haulage, not this guff
Well living in East Yorkshire where we were one of the last areas in the UK that still had to use these buses on rails I wouldn’t even dream of going anywhere to go for a ride on these XXXX trains.
I concur! These 4-wheel Pacers ride very badly – bumpy and jerky and far, far worse than the first generation DMUs.
Despite this they’ve become quite popular with a number of smaller preserved railways. The Wensleydale railway is a case in point – it appears to have abandoned steam completely and runs only Pacers on its services. This does not attract me in the slightest – I hated Pacers when they were on the main line and avoided them whenever I could, so I’m not going to subject myself to them again on a leisure trip!