Does this artificial beach count?
Well if you mean in the context of the thread, then no. Given the OP stated...
Post-withdrawal preservation examples not included either!
Nice to see the horrid thing has been trundling around though.
Does this artificial beach count?
Post-withdrawal preservation examples not included either!
141113 (which is freshly repainted and has a retrimmed interior) is alive and well and has been running services to Swanwick-on-Sea on the Midland Railway Butterley all this week, complete with a destination blind that reads "Seaside Special". Does this artificial beach count?
For a picture see http://llangollenrailcars.co.uk/News.php and scroll down to the 5th picture on the August 7th item.
Well, 141113 is the only surviving 141 that is in 'Metro' red and cream. 141108 at the Colne Valley is in blue and grey (although not quite an authentic version) while 141103 at Weardale is in purple and cream. The cream and green (it's mostly cream) would be a nightmare to keep clean and of course not historically accurate while '13' never ran in Barrow blue and grey.
From memory, only 141001-005 actually emerged from Derby in blue/grey, and I'm pretty sure none of them actually ran in passenger service in that colour scheme. I do remember seeing one at York on a test run from Neville Hill in those colours back in about Jan/Feb 1984. 141001 retained blue/grey for several years but didn't enter passenger service until after refurbishment and repaint into red/cream, having spent several years in store at Holbeck alongside 140001.
There's a few preserved examples:
141103 at the Weardale Railway
141108 at the Colne Valley Railway, but currently up for sale.
141113 at the Midland Railway, Butterley.
All are operational. 141110 was also preserved at the Weardale Railway alongside 141103, but has been broken up for spares to keep the latter unit running.
IIRC, the Colne Valley one has a problem with one of it's gearboxes and a shortage of spares means it's running on one engine only at the moment. That's a job for the new owner.
Interestingly the body of 141113 was painted blue presumably when built, and you find it when you rub it down for painting. It never ran in that livery though.
Not long (< 3years) before there's a flood of spare parts coming available...
Given only Yorkshire crews signed them.
I think Ash Bridge was making a sly reference to the bumpy ride of these... erm, luxury intercity units- that a bib would be required if attempting to eat or drink anything on board!
One thing the 141s had over later Pacers was the shorter wheelbase which meant less squealing on corners (providing the brakes weren't also being used!).
Alas none of the spares in the forthcoming Pacer cull will be of any use to the owners of 141103 or 141108. Both have failed SCG Gearboxes of a type long obsolete. All those to be withdrawn have Voith T211R hydraulic boxes which would physically fit but there would be a chunk of rewiring needed to get them to work.
Was having a bit of a brain-fart in thinking they were built at Derby rather than Workington- it was of course the 144s that were constructed at Derby, though I think some 141s underwent testing at the RTC.
Knew they'd occasionally found their way to Lancashire on York-Blackpool and Leeds-Morecambe services, didn't know they'd ever worked services entirely within Lancashire though. The SY use isn't surprising, as many of the WY units (141, 144 and even 110s) were used on Sheffield-based services including those that didn't touch West Yorkshire.They were trialled on the Blackpool to colne line for a short time I remember catching one from Preston to colne as a kid, they had questionnaires for passengers to fill in regarding suggestions and comments on them
Possibly, I was very young at the time but I do remember it took my interest as it looked like a leyland national when it pulled in to the stationThey didn't work services entirely in Lancashire and didn't work Blackpool South - Colne services. I think Bcn1973 has misremembered, though quite understandably, as the 140 was trialled on Colne services and it will have been this he travelled on.