Govt: Pacer trains could be used as village halls

[jamesontheroad]

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-48434379

Pacer trains could be used as villages halls or cafes when they are taken out of service, the government has said.

A call for ideas for using the 30-year-old carriages as public spaces is to be launched.

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Community groups will be given the opportunity to put forward ideas on alternative uses for the trains this summer when a competition is launched.

Rail minister Andrew Jones said the trains had "outstayed their welcome".

He hoped the "workhorses of the North's rail network" could serve communities near where they carried passengers "in an entirely different way".

To quote the (German-born) architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, “the English will spare no expense to get something on the cheap.”

 

[ainsworth74]

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