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latimers wrote:Aha, now I look very carefully I can see wheels. I was expecting two axles, i.e. four wheels per bogie but I guess there is only one axle, i.e. two wheels. Is that correct? If I kneel down between the tracks I can see a wheel on each side, with the right wheel on the rail and the left wheel inside of and below the top of the rail.

Bob.

If you had ever travelled in one of these you would know they only have four wheels - ride quality?

Well I can see all wheels on the rails, except at one side the flange is on the wrong side. ( on the outside of the rail instead of the inside. ) But I can live with that.
Great work as ever James.

Chris.

alanch wrote:

latimers wrote:Aha, now I look very carefully I can see wheels. I was expecting two axles, i.e. four wheels per bogie but I guess there is only one axle, i.e. two wheels. Is that correct? If I kneel down between the tracks I can see a wheel on each side, with the right wheel on the rail and the left wheel inside of and below the top of the rail.

Bob.

If you had ever travelled in one of these you would know they only have four wheels - ride quality?

The story goes that we were supposed to trial "Sprinters" in North America with the possibility of some sales, but somehow we managed to send a "Pacer".
Wonder why we never got the sale.

Bob, the original prototype was built from Leyland bus parts fitted atop of a rail chassis.
http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Pages%2 ... U_140.html

The follow on from that was the Class 141.
http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Pages%2 ... U_141.html

Chris.

chrisiveson wrote:Bob, the original prototype was built from Leyland bus parts fitted atop of a rail chassis.
http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Pages%2 ... U_140.html

The follow on from that was the Class 141.
http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Pages%2 ... U_141.html

Chris.

The prototype was dumped at the back of Holbeck shed for years, and I saw it there often.

There's a photo of one of the 141s in green and cream on my site here http://alan-lewis-chambers.fotopic.net/p24354943.html . I often travelled on them from Burley Park, on the old Leeds Northern Harrogate line, into Leeds, and usually regretted it after arriving pretty well shaken but not stirred.

alanch wrote:

chrisiveson wrote:Bob, the original prototype was built from Leyland bus parts fitted atop of a rail chassis.
http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Pages%2 ... U_140.html

The follow on from that was the Class 141.
http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Pages%2 ... U_141.html

Chris.

The prototype was dumped at the back of Holbeck shed for years, and I saw it there often.

There's a photo of one of the 141s in green and cream on my site here http://alan-lewis-chambers.fotopic.net/p24354943.html . I often travelled on them from Burley Park, on the old Leeds Northern Harrogate line, into Leeds, and usually regretted it after arriving pretty well shaken but not stirred.

Alan, that's where it's parked in the above photo with the viaduct line behind.
I travelled into Leeds from Knottingley on the 141's on a regular basis and it was difficult to decide which was the roughest ride, the bus, or the bus on rails. ( but they did fit plenty of grab handles )

Chris.

ok ladies and gents. Im gearing up to continue to work on the pacers

the big question is, which would you like to see next

Arriva Trains Wales (Blue) 143s
Arriva Trains Wales (Valley Lines Liv) 142s
Arriva Trains Wales (Valley Lines Liv) 143s
BR Cream & Brown 142s (WR and Tyneside)
BR Provincial 142s (York Area)
BR Provincial 143s
Tyne & Wear 143s
Valley Lines 142s

Post your answers below and i shall count up 12pm on Friday and see which to concentrate on

Provincial 142s NL based - choose from 142070/72-096: sample dests? Leeds, York. Sheffield, Hull, Goole, Huddersfield to name but a few.

Please

BR Provincial 142s (York Area) & BR Provincial 143s Please

BR Provincial 142's and 143's would be great! How about a sectorisation pack from the late 1980's-1990's? I'm thinking of Regional Railways, GMPTE Red and Grey, early Merseyrail livery, etc.

Matt C

Would personally love to see a WR Choc & cream one, reminds me of my first holiday in Devon back in 1987 and seeing my first WR one (142024) in Exeter St Davids, finished all bar 2 during that week on the Exmouth branch (and got one of the remining 2 the following week on my way to Blackpool as the move northwards had just started!!).

Cheers!

model321 wrote:BR Provincial 142's and 143's would be great! How about a sectorisation pack from the late 1980's-1990's? I'm thinking of Regional Railways, GMPTE Red and Grey, early Merseyrail livery, etc.

Matt C

Hi Matt

Anton has allready done some great 142s in some of those liveries

Class 142 015 Regional Railways [2793955 bytes] - Setup_RR_142015.zip File ID: 12999 Date: 05 Sep 2005 - 4045 Downloads

- Regional Rail 142

Class 143607 [Regional Railways] [5330706 bytes] - RR_143607_setup.zip File ID: 14580 Date: 19 May 2006 - 2223 Downloads

- Regional Rail 143

I may look into the Regional railways grey ones though depending on how things are going

I also have a GMPTE which has been sat around for ages. I really should get it uploaded!

BR Provincial 142s it is then

followed by Provincial 143s and cream 142s

I would like the to see the Western Region Skipper version,I went all the way to Penzance from Exeter in one of those b----y busses on railway wheels,They were made up of parts from a Leyland National Bus.

Michael

OK, just to post a bit of progress

The Photo Below shows the BR Cream Versions
On the Top row we have 142016 (Exeter), 142020 (Paignton) and 142021 (Penzance)
Below we Have the Heaton Variants. 142025 (Middlesborough), 142521 (Sunderland), 142519 (Newcastle)


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and on the Neville Hill front we have 142075 for Huddersfield with an updated weathered roof


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If all goes to plan, the Western Region cream and Heaton Cream versions should be ready for upload either tomorrow or friday with the Neville Hill Provincial ones next week.

Then some time for some 143s