Pacers As Crowd Busters?

[Bevan Price]

I remember seeing rows of those at Edge Hill in the late 1970s. Of course the issue with that was you also needed spare locos.

At weekends, there was no shortage of spare locos to work (pre-AirCon) stock - they used locos that worked freight from Monday to Friday. And I think that there were usually enough crews willing to volunteer to work overtime at weekends.

Of course that was before sectorisation / the great "flog-off", since when many crews have much more limited traction & route knowledge.

 

[RichmondCommu]

At weekends, there was no shortage of spare locos to work (pre-AirCon) stock - they used locos that worked freight from Monday to Friday. And I think that there were usually enough crews willing to volunteer to work overtime at weekends.

Of course that was before sectorisation / the great "flog-off", since when many crews have much more limited traction & route knowledge.

Hence the use of class 20s on trains to Skegness. Okay a different part of the country to Edge Hill but the same principle applies

 

[Ayman Ilham]

Sitting in the luggage rack on a 158 is more comfortable than the seats on an ex-Merseyrail 142.

Why am I not surprised? Ex-Merseyrail 142's are way too cramped in addition to the usual Pacer "bounciness", definitely the worst "train" out there!