Pacer cab under Manchester Victoria

[plannerman]

Hi

Whether you agree with the practice or not, I find Urban Exploration websites very interesting. Anyway, one site has got recent photos from the space under Manchester Victoria station. In one area is a 142 cab (just the very front, the yellow bit). Does anyone know anything about it? Is it a training mockup? It seems to be a strange place to put it. It does have a fleetnumber, though I can't make it out.

thanks

 

[ainsworth74]

Perhaps a link to the site?

 

[Lampshade]

It's 142059, crashed into the buffers at Lime Street, not sure where I read it though.

EDIT: More info here and here

 

[plannerman]

Aha, thanks chaps, that's definitely the one. I thought it may have been an old mock-up from when they were built or something. Wonder if it'll ever see the light of day again.

 

[43167]

Bet theres right collection of treasures under railway stations.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Are 142 059's frames still stored in the open at Newton Heath?

 

[driver9000]

Are 142 059's frames still stored in the open at Newton Heath?

Scrapped long ago. The cab front under Manchester Victoria is from the vehicle that was trailing when it went through the stops at Lime Street.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

How long ago? Saw them a few years back, parked up on blocks at the Thorpe's Bridge Junction end of the depot, just inside the fence, adjacent to the Oldham loop and this was several years after the crash.

 

[driver9000]

I'm not sure of the exact date, but I've been going to Newton Heath for a number of years and have been right round the depot and there is no sign anywhere of 059s remains. I would guess they were scrapped around 10 years or so ago.

 

[Simondi]

Bet theres right collection of treasures under railway stations.

I'd love to have a nose around under Glasgow Central....amongst others