the announcer at 0:47 sounds like he hates his job

Guys. Hate to break it to you but this is a Dvd Btw even though 15 yrs later

nice footage

I Hate How Some 144's Were 2 Cars

Class 141 looks like a pacer ordered off wish

I’ve been here numerous times

143 and 144 all had cummins not leyland. Only 141 and 142's started off for a few years with the dreaded leyland engine then went to cummins with voith transmission

I wonder how those who left negative comments about the Pacers 10-12yrs ago felt about them in 2021 when they were withdrawn en Masse. These tough runabouts kept the railways going on local services. The 142's had a purposeful front end design, unlike the 'soft' looking 143's, great acceleration and all seating positioned the correct way, unlike the horrible 150's and 152's.

It’s actually Birmingham snow hill

Omg like how awful were these trains bus on rails

God I remember being cooped up on both of these going from Derby to Skegness. 90 miles on hard plastic seats. Ouch. The 101 may have been older but at least it was comfy and roomy.

7:22 That bounce...

That’s 30 years ago

Only chiltern trains terminate here at snow hill as of today

As of today the extension of the line from snow hill is now here for the trains to go to Stourbridge and Kidderminster

Why Are They So Phantom And Scary They Look Haunted JEEZ 1990 ENGLAND CJ WOULD BEAT THE MISSION IN 5 SECONDS

1990?

Pacers were invented to punish train travellers for not buying cars.

Wish I was born in the 90s 😞

Love them or hate them, these trains are different to other types of trains and when they finally go it'll be very interesting.

Ghastly little train, I remember when they were introduced, we use to dread them, they were more unreliable and uncomfortable than what they replaced, I still remember hearing their axles scream at Shipley.

Opening the taps at the end of Atherstones platforms.........great stuff!

They look so different woah :-)

Im pretty happy there MTUs now u can finally see in paddington!!!

It used to have a musty underground tunnel , I am not 40 yet but I do remember the old station in the eighties , going to see nan and grampy on the train from Watford .

It has now become a little boring reading totally ignorant comments suggesting Pacers were 'cheap' without any evidence to back their statements up. I decided to do a bit of research and came up with some real facts and figures: In the mid 1980s when they were new, a two carriage Class 142 unit cost £350k per unit. A two carriage Class 143 unit cost £300k. A two carriage Class 150/1 Sprinter unit cost £500k per unit, (the latter had a 30 year fatique design life and in recent times there have been severe corrosion issues with some units). When built it was estimated that bogies would have added around £30k to each Pacer carriage. The lower price of the Class 143 was due to competitive tendering by Walter Alexander Coachbuilders of Falkirk. This information came from BRITISH RAIL FLEET SURVEY 9 Diesel Multiple Units The Second Generation and DEMUs by Brian Haresnape, published by Ian Allan Ltd 1986. ISBN 0 7110 1604 6. At this time, a new double decker bus cost around £80k. It can be seen that ONE Class 142 carriage cost over twice the price of a new double decker bus. This was due to the rail nature of the underframe (which was not merely a bus chassis as alleged, but rail based and was built by BREL Derby for Class 141,142 and 144s or Alexander Barclay Kilmarnock for Class 143s. I have not been able to find out the further costs of the various modifications made to Pacers over the years. The main ones were fitting Voith transmission to all Class 142, 143 and 144s by March 1991, due to the high failure rate of the original flawed SCG gearboxes, (probably around £10 - £14m). A direct operating braking system was fitted in 1990-1. The Leyland TL11 engines were replaced by Cummins LT10Rs between March 1993 and April 1996 (to an extent this was due to normal wear and tear, as BR had found that it was more economical to buy new Cummins engines than overhaul the Leyland ones), plus new doors/door mechanisms at the same time. When Pacers were first introduced, the ride quality was certainly a problem on some lines, due to the large amount of poor jointed track that was still around. It is not so much now. In fact the Siemens Desiro Class 185s and 350s are not that much smoother than a Pacer when going over points, despite having bogies.

I heard the wiithdrawal of the Northern Pacers will start in September next year with the last to be removed from traffic in October 2019 before the deadline of Pacers on 31 December 2019. I reckon 'a few people will mourn passing of the Pacer. Northern has announced a multi-million pound investment in 281 new carriages, with the first of the new fleet being delivered by October next year. The 100mph trains will include air conditioning, power sockets, toilets and free WiFi for passengers.

Ah, the good old days, before the MTU's and First with their ghastly purple & pink liveries.

Pacer trains were ment to be a short term stopgap due to a shortage of rolling stock

The 143s originally came to Heaton -built by Alexanders of Kilmarnock. Because of massive gearbox problems the gearboxes were changed to Voith -after all the bugs were sorted out they were transferred to Cardiff and Heaton got 142s instead the first being 142 050 in Chocolate and Cream!! -in the North East!

it's like they took two buses, chained them together, and pulled the tires off, and said "Job's a good'un"

This cant be 1990, most pacers were not in them liveries back then.

26 years on and some routes are still stuck with these trains :P Can't wait for 2020

later on the class 142's were retrofitted with Cummins 10 litre turbo LTA10-R 6-cylinder engines with voith hydraulic transmissions. The 143 and 144's also had the same engine and transmission retrofitted. The class 141 also got the same Cummins engine and transmission I've just learned.

Fixed axles? Who the hell thought this was a good idea on a passenger train?

God the Class 141s really were ugly in my opinion. I mean none of the Pacer units are stunners but the 141s just looked dreadful to me.

1:41, blackpool rock.....

Fantastic video!

As a person who has used the hope valley line a lot, I can't wait till they go! Haha. The older ones look even worse than the current affairs. Nostalgic and interesting though mind

lovely sound out that diesel engine, i wonder what size it is in liters? and what type i.e V6

'This is Tinsley Dippo before sunroise...This Dippo is now clowsed' An immortal line from this Brummie commentator on another vid. Oh for David Maxey and his patent sarcasm :)

@joshuan542 Whoop! whoop! Same ;)

woow thats when valentas ruled and looked like a hst. now mtu hsts looks so gay. lol and sounds it too lol

doncaster isent it

do you know which video this is from? Cheers

@TheXtremeEnthusiast lancaster actually for this clip

@TheXtremeEnthusiast lancaster actually

The untitles clip before Willington looked like Barnet Green nr Bromsgrove

Bescot in 2000 was still fairly busy. Night shifts were a right graft.... Sadly the place is very quiet now, while the M6 is jammed with lorries. Something wrong somewhere.

@mackat4ck Lol!