Strathclyder
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Pacers, as a collective family, have paid more visits to Scotland than I previously thought. A bit of digging in the right places has brought up a few rare gems in relation to this subject...
As briefly touched upon above, 143s briefly worked on the Edinburgh-Bathgate Line upon it's reopening in 1986. Not sure how long this arrangement lasted for or how many units were used, but 150s & 101s quickly took over.
140001, before calling Dufftown it's home in preservation, made it's way up north to Scotland for trial runs on the Glasgow South Western Line as far as Barrhead & Kilmarnock in August 1981. Not much was obviously thought of it, as the GSWL held onto it's extant stock until the 156s came along a few years later.
141s made appearances in Kilmarnock in the late 1980s; one presumes this was during the reengineering of the class in an attempt to cure their persistent unreliability issues? One (141111) was spotted during a open day of some description at Killie within this time period too.
And finally, 142s have made several fleeting visits to rare Scottish locations while in transit to/from Glasgow Works in Springburn for refurbishment, Johnstone on the Ayrshire Coast Line perhaps being one of the more unusual locations.
As briefly touched upon above, 143s briefly worked on the Edinburgh-Bathgate Line upon it's reopening in 1986. Not sure how long this arrangement lasted for or how many units were used, but 150s & 101s quickly took over.
140001, before calling Dufftown it's home in preservation, made it's way up north to Scotland for trial runs on the Glasgow South Western Line as far as Barrhead & Kilmarnock in August 1981. Not much was obviously thought of it, as the GSWL held onto it's extant stock until the 156s came along a few years later.
141s made appearances in Kilmarnock in the late 1980s; one presumes this was during the reengineering of the class in an attempt to cure their persistent unreliability issues? One (141111) was spotted during a open day of some description at Killie within this time period too.
And finally, 142s have made several fleeting visits to rare Scottish locations while in transit to/from Glasgow Works in Springburn for refurbishment, Johnstone on the Ayrshire Coast Line perhaps being one of the more unusual locations.
