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Has anyone filmed or seen a video containing a Pacer where it bounces more vigoursly than this one?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJHwbgk3ynU (about 4:00 in)

good old video47!

Good job it was just starting.

Reminds of the trams in Stettin.

i remember up't north now and again we used to get a 142 on the rosehill or marple service (insted of a 101) i seem to remember a bad bit of track between romley and where the rose hill branch meets the main line ( not on the viaduct tho!!) even on the 101's you knew when you hit it because you could hear it infact i could hear it from my old house a couple of miles away like  a whooshing sound then a couple of clunks  ;D now on a pacer that was fun!!

Bl**dy h*ll! A few dipped joints there, methinks. I had know idea there was quite so much visible bouncage* even at low speed like that, although it has felt a bit like that a few times when I've been on a Pacer.

*_{probably not a word}

If it was, it would be spelt bounceage.  ;)

Sorry dunno (not a word) how to put a link into a post, (I am an old git). But....

If you put a search to You tube for '142 Newton St Cyres' you get some FGW bounceage (you never know if people are using the word it will become one).

Here's the video to which you refer, qwerty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1hG7F_EPg

And also a news item from ITV Westcountry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0G2BK04vsw&NR=1.

Perhaps Pacers can be given a new nickname: "Tiggers"

The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Are Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is there's more than only one. (slight edit!)


^ A A Milne  ;D

Oh yes that poorly researched one that claimed they are 30 years old when it was done a few years ago


But they're known as donkeys, which is very appropriate for the seaside services they operate.  A donkey can't be another type of animal unless it's Donkey Kong.