Class 142 mock up in NSE livery

[Nym]

Perfect length for that route...

 

[Class172]

Perfect length for that route...

And it would actually suit them (for once)!

 

[Nym]

Now, what to do with the other 100od?

 

[Lampshade]

Wire them up to remote control and go Pacer jousting

 

[Nym]

We already did that at Lime Street, the other pacer ran away...

Oh, and at Winsford, but we where squinting and it was actually a leccy loco...

 

[causton]

Another picture sent to me to upload

 

[BestWestern]

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Another picture sent to me to upload

I've absolutely no idea what that is, but it is very defnitely NOT a Pacer, of any sort! Front end looks more like a tamper or something!

 

[90019]

Oh, could that be to do with when a 321 was painted in NS livery?


Or possibly when the three 90s were painted into European liveries (NMBS, DB and SNCF, I think), though that one seems a long shot.

 

[Lrd]

The doors don't look wide enough for Pacer doors either...

 

[Eagle]

Oh, could that be to do with when a 321 was painted in NS livery?
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Looks even less like a 321 than it does a 142 :P

 

[MCR247]

I think what he was saying was that we painted a 321 into NS livery, so did they do the same but the other way round?

 

[Eagle]

I think what he was saying was that we painted a 321 into NS livery, so did they do the same but the other way round?

Misread NS as NSE...

 

[90019]

Looks even less like a 321 than it does a 142 :P

NS liveried 321334

 

[Eagle]

NS liveried 321334

Would be nice for AGA's livery :P

 

[Nym]

I thought Agas where green and black?

 

[Sulzer5207]

its not a mock up for something like Manchester Metrolink or DLR is it?

 

[Yew]

http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Artists impressions/142_Early.jpg

Now THAT, is a good looking pacer

 

[Peter Mugridge]

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I'll tell you what that does remind me of... the Southend Pier Railway.

Did they ever get sponsored to carry NSE livery?

 

[shedman]

There is also a picture of it in white undercoat before it was painted. I haven't got a clue what it is and i do apologise about the poor quailty of the pictures. Many thanks for uploading them by the way.

 

[Nym]

Looks like a cargo sprinter tbh

 

[O L Leigh]

I don't think (someone will correct me if I'm wrong) that there was ever an idea to put Pacers in the Network South East area. And it has been largely debunked that what we're looking at here is a Pacer mock-up.

I seem to recall that there were rumblings back in the 1990s that the old 1st gen DMUs on the NLL could have been seen off using displaced Cl141s, but thankfully nothing ever came of the idea. In the end the old duffers soldiered on until Silverlink replaced them with their Cl150/1s

O L Leigh

 

[umontu]

http://www.railforums.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=9074&d=1323293113

Looks a lot like an mpv. Though the lights and windows are different.

http://cdn6.wn.com/pd/c3/f9/ac859b635dae89510e0009c3f28d_grande.jpg

 

[sprinterguy]

Oh, could that be to do with when a 321 was painted in NS livery?

The railways in the Netherlands don't look quite that different from our own. If they had reciprocated with the repainted 321 over here, surely they would have chosen one of their (standard gauge) commuter trains? I don't think the Netherlands has much in the way of narrow gauge commercial lines, either.
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http://www.railforums.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=9074&d=1323293113

Looks a lot like an mpv. Though the lights and windows are different.

Pretty much everything is different, except for the fact that it has an abrupt change of angle in the design of the front end.

 

[90019]

The railways in the Netherlands don't look quite that different from our own. If they had reciprocated with the repainted 321 over here, surely they would have chosen one of their (standard gauge) commuter trains? I don't think the Netherlands has much in the way of narrow gauge commercial lines, either.

That's what confused me, because I don't recall any NS trains being repainted, or any looking like that.

 

[43021HST]

Just thought, NSE could have used a pacer on the gospal oak to barking line or the Sudbury to Marks Tey branch.

 

[Eagle]

Just thought, NSE could have used a pacer on the gospal oak to barking line or the Sudbury to Marks Tey branch.

Or the Thames Valley branches.

If they'd developed an Electropacer it'd probably be all over the south.

 

[davelew99]

Would it happen to be this picture?
http://www.fictitiousliveries.co.uk/photo.php?dmu142NSE.jpg

It's one of the fictitious liveries that Owen Hodgson has done as a bit of fun, he's done loads of them: His fictitious liveries site (which is where the link to that picture takes you) is excellent.

I suppose it should be amusing that the station in the image is Whitehaven - without going to scotland about as far away from NSE as you can get!

 

[sprinterguy]

I suppose it should be amusing that the station in the image is Whitehaven - without going to scotland about as far away from NSE as you can get!

Well, it could be a recently cascaded Pacer. NSE stock in the North West isn't unheard of, like this:
http://www.johndarm.clara.net/Resources/94Preston.jpg

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Nobody noticed my post at #48?!

 

[driver9000]

Nobody noticed my post at #48?!

It looks far too big to a Southend pier train. A Google image search brought back a short, raked backed nose car painted blue with what seemed to resemble domino marker lights