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My first visit to the Wensleydale Railway near Northallerton see's recently acquired Northern Rail Pacer pair 142060 and 142028 in there first days operation on the approach to Redmire with the 1430 from Leeming Bar.
They look strangely at home here.
One of the places i really wanted to hit in Colorado was the San Luis & Rio Grande which i was hoping to chase some of their Maroon & gold painted engines. I arrived into Alamosa to find this beast tied down the night before this was taken next to the shops. I woke up the next morning to find that the engine and car 820 were gone so I headed east to quickly caught up to the test train heading for La Veta pass at a good clip. I would chase them as far east as Forbes Park before they would get deep into the Pass.
La Pace di Dio inizia dal cuore e non termina mai!
La Pace dell'uomo inizia dalle parole e termina con i fatti!
Dave
A selection of Newton Heath's finest at Manchester Victoria, 142009 (GMT colours), 142017/026 (ex Cornwall) and 142038 (Provincial).
Tuesday 4th April 1989
I was simply drawn to the colors of this building and the one in the background. I love how the D750 captured these colors. Nikon 50mm f/1.8 ai-s lens. Old Town, Lansing, Michigan, USA.
A brace of 143s, forming a Paignton to Exmouth service, meander along the seawall. Beyond the tower of St. Michael's the upper reaches of Shaldon provide the backdrop.
A visit to Teeside in September '87 sees a class 143 Pacer rounding the curve at Cargo Fleet. The grainy Agfa CT21 is quite evident here.
An errand in Chester yesterday saw me let the train take the strain. I probably should do so more often seeing as the £5 return fare was less than the usual cost of parking and petrol combined, plus I also get a bit of exercise strolling from the station into the city centre.
Anyhow, I may be mistaken, but I think this is only my second visit to the station since the 1970s so I figured I'd get a couple of snaps at least for old times sake. No class 40s on the North Wales runs this time but still a reasonable amount of traffic, even if most of it was DMUs of one sort or another. What did strike me was how attractive the station still looks - Manchester Victoria might be a thing of the past but, for me, Chester still has a lot to offer visually with those thick-set girders and splendid roof canopies.
In this shot, Northern class 142 Pacer no. 142043 stands in the platform 5 bay where, in some four hours time, it will form the 1.59pm service to Manchester Piccadilly (2H37) via Knutsford and Stockport. Given the damp cold conditions, let's hope the driver puts in an early appearance to have the unit well warm before any punters climb aboard.
9.43am, 5th January 2018
With part of the new Aston Church Road bridge beginning to arrive on site, this vantage point doesn't have too long left now, though when the new bridge goes in it will hopefully become much wider. Rattling along the fast line, LSL 142003 in GMPTE Orange heads to its new home as 5Z42 Eastleigh Works to Crewe Holding Sidings.
Two former MRL EMD's take what was once known as the 840 local east towards Townsend in the mist of a late summer thunderstorm. E. Helena, Mont. | August, 2024
Pacer is the operational name of the British Rail Classes 140, 141, 142, 143 and 144 diesel multiple unit railbuses, built between 1980 and 1987. The railbuses were intended as a short-term solution to a shortage of rolling stock (with a lifespan of no more than 20 years), but as of 2019, many are still in use. (They are Leyland Bus bodies attached to Railway Chassis ,) Hence the name Railbuses ..
Bella Pace, one of the most beautiful sims in Second Life.
The sim will be closing soon. If you haven't visited it yet, hurry up before it's too late.
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Location: Bella Pace, Shooting Stars
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But you'll never be alone
I'll be with you from dusk till dawn
I'll be with you from dusk till dawn
Baby, I'm right here
I'll hold you when things go wrong
I'll be with you from dusk till dawn
I'll be with you from dusk till dawn
Baby, I'm right here
I'll be with you from dusk till dawn
Baby, I'm right here
The 2D40 11.17 Manchester Piccadilly to Chester crosses the Weaver Navigation.
Plenty of freight here but not when the sun shone!
Passing the redundant Ystrad Mynach South signal box on the Cardiff Valleys network, "Pacers" 142076+142002 head south with 2P41 11:07 Rhymney - Penarth on 13/11/2013.
Apologies if not to everyone's taste, either the processing or subject matter but this is a scene and photograph idea I've had in mind for a while, I just needed to get to grips with the Photoshop technique to achieve.
This is actually made up of two images which were taken 30 minutes apart. The Pacer train was taken at 17:15 (1/400 f3.5 ISO800) with just enough light to stop the moving train with the second shot taken at 17:48 (4sec f8 ISO100). In Photoshop I've merged and blended the two together, keeping the sky and train from the earlier shot and with the city night scene a blend of the two.
Anyway, its kept me out of trouble for a while.
The scene is looking out over the city of Leeds from Holbeck. The working is the once daily Leeds to Goole service, just passing Engine Shed Junction, with the old Holbeck shed out of view to the left.
For the record, the working is a Northern Rail 3 Car Class 144, 144015 working 2F25 17:16 Leeds to Goole.
Saturday 17th February 2018.
Whilst waiting fort the Deltic last week I took a few other passing shots. One of which was this ancient pacer, 142 042. I don't know what their life expectancy was when built but they have certainly exceeded it. As far as I can see online they will be withdrawn by December 2019.
The original of this image was little dark and lacking detail so I have tweaked it a little to bring out the detail of the former Methley Junction station building and passing pacer.
Northern Rail liveried Pacer 142091 will shortly depart wrong line from Hexham with a Nunthorpe bound service.
We spent a day out in the towns along the eastern end of the Tyne Valley Line and I managed to squeeze a couple of railway shots in between visitng the delights of the local pubs and tea rooms. Friday 22.4.16
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