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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2008, 20:04:30 » |
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Welcome to the forum! When I saw this a while back I shuddered! "Oh dear....!!"  |
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2008, 14:26:11 » |
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Cheers mate have you checked the others he has done thou? How are you getting on with the 142s anyway?
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2008, 17:09:35 » |
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I luckily never use them!
The last (and only ones) I used where Lancaster to Leeds and Lancaster to Carlisle via Cumbrian Coast.
As I said before: "my back was never the same again!"
And as for my ears at Carnforth!
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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2008, 10:24:30 » |
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Yea they really are one of the worse units to grace the railways in years. So what have they done to refresh them up? Have they repainted them?
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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2008, 14:48:02 » |
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No refurb, same purple colour, same yellow Northern Trains star thing just with a gurt out of proportion First logo on the side.  |
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« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2008, 15:53:52 » |
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Why can't they send them to Iran again or maybe not we don't want to start World war 3
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« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2008, 17:40:15 » |
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Yea they really are one of the worse units to grace the railways in years. So what have they done to refresh them up? Have they repainted them?
When introduced The Pacer provided a low cost replacement train for branch line use, and over the years has probably contributed in its own way to keeping some lightly used branch lines open. The worst unit to grace the railway in recent years is the Voyager, its done nothing to improve long distance high speed travel and is now as we all know being replaced on some diagrams on Cross Country with HSTs▸ which is the train the voyager was supposed to be an improvement on |
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« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2008, 16:50:17 » |
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How can you say that the voyagers are worse unit they are more comfortable,they are a smoother ride, they are 50 times more safe in an accident which will get you there in one piece. The units the pacers replaced were better than a bus.
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« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2008, 17:47:20 » |
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^ all of the above.
They really, really do smell awful though.
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« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2008, 18:50:08 » |
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Anyone notice how 142s seem to be the only trains where windows get steamed up when it rains? Today I passed one- it had windows open but every window was completely fogged!
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« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2008, 14:55:17 » |
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Yea your not wrong mate it must be an old leyland bus thing.
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« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2008, 17:41:30 » |
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No refurb, same purple colour, same yellow Northern Trains star thing just with a gurt out of proportion First logo on the side. Huh, i've been on a refurbed one to Barnstaple? I'm sure someone posted a link to some photos and it was quite nice. |
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« Reply #13 on: June 07, 2008, 17:45:56 » |
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How can you say that the voyagers are worse unit they are more comfortable,they are a smoother ride, they are 50 times more safe in an accident which will get you there in one piece. The units the pacers replaced were better than a bus.
if you actually read what i said It was ......IN RECENT YEARS!! |
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« Reply #14 on: June 07, 2008, 18:07:48 » |
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if you actually read what i said It was ......IN RECENT YEARS!!
The problem might be that you wrote 'grace' when - I think - you meant 'be introduced on'... |
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