d1015fan
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i like that. shame the 142's will be lost down this way in june
Think the only pacer bashing i'll be doing, is when they start going to the scrapyards and i can go to town on them with a cutting torch.
i was thinking countrywide pacer bashing e.g wherever is local to you. so if your northern then you have 142, 444's and South Wales and South West we have the 142, 143. a north v. south pacer bash so to speak. glory of being the 12 hour pacer basher for the person who gets the most mileage in on a 142, one for a 143 and one for a 144. Do you know I have never thought about this pacer bashing business til yesterday.
So are we gonna find some fgw pacer bashers or is it just me who'se gonna be doing them.
If everyone who hates a Pacer was asked to pay £50 to be able to go along and smash up part of it, could they raise enough to buy a new fleet of DMUs?
I'd maybe pay £100 and I've only been unfortunate enough to travel on one about twice in my life.
I fancy doing this just for the hell of it, because I am sad like that!
You could have joined 4SRKT and me on the Swansea District a few weeks ago...
I am not as anti-Pacer as I used to be. Having done Pembroke and the District on them, they actually seem like decent little units. And they're not bad on the Severn Beach line either. It's just when they do the likes of the Tarka that you hit problems.
Not meaning to spoil anyones fun here, I spent 9 hours on the c2c 'Last Blue Train' tour and that was a nice comfy Class 357 EMU and I can tell you that got very uncomftable so I couldn't imagine what it'd be like on a 'Pacer'...
Have you ever flown on Virgin Upper Class, having first been picked up by a limo driver and taken to the Virgin club house, where you can swim, have a drink, shoot some pool and have a haircut and facial. Then when the flight is ready, you're invited to board and have a pre-take off glass of champagne, only to be looked after and pampered throughout the flight, with a driver awaiting your arrival to take you to wherever you wish to go...?
I'm fairly certain that this is what the Pacer experience is like...
I remember reading that people used to flagillate themselves in the Middle Ages because that gave them pleasure.
Sounds like nothing has changed!!
i like that. shame the 142's will be lost down this way in june
I think that the Newton Abbot area is actually just the area to send down all the ailing and infirm Northern Rail Class 142 Pacers, to help them convelesce in June.....and when they are better, you can arrange regular sea-air trips for them from Newton Abbot to Torre, Torquay and Paignton as part of the attractions for the Summer Season.
Yet another pipe-dream, borne out of desperation!!:cry: Still, hope springs eternal, as they say.