The Foxfield Railway has requested that The 142055 Group needs to find an alternative site to base Ex-Northern Class 142 No. 142055.
The group says that a number of enquiries have been made with other heritage sites, but no agreements have yet been made.
Foxfield and The 142055 Group has been in agreement together since June 2020, with the unit arriving by road in September 2020.
A 142055 Group spokesperson said “Foxfield Railway Board have requested that the owners of 142055 to seek an alternative site to base the DMU. A number of enquires have been made with Heritage Railway sites, but no agreements for an alternative site have yet been confirmed.”
If you want to help with keeping 142055 preserved, you can become a member via their website.
Offer it to Transport for Wales – they’d run it Holyhead to Swansea as a refurb powered by daffodil dust lol
That is just so funny 😂😂😂
Elsecar heritage center in s Yorkshire would be a great home for her,they undergoing a multi million pound rebuild in the new year maybe contact them?
I don’t get the hostile reaction to Pacers. They’re as much a part of UK railway history as steam. To many, myself included steam is lovely but I don’t remember it in everyday use (how many under retirement age do) whereas these units bring back happy memories of travels past. It’s very much a generation thing as I see it, and the mainly elderly custodians of our heritage lines are missing a trick by not supporting those who wish to preserve easy to maintain and popular (with some!) DMUs.
I drove 142s through Elsecar for years. Hated them. Should be banned from the face of the earth.
One body would make an ideal Shed, if I had the room. LoL
It’s a pity cozens scrap yard of Kettering is not operational iam sure they would have it.
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That’s long gone now and replaced by a car dealership warehouses and a Costa
Central Line on London Underground is cancelling trains due to lack of rolling ztock so many out of action !!!.
Perhaps the pacer could run above ground to avoid passengers freezing to death on open platforms
Having worked on these in the early eighties at Derby carriage works, i have fond memories, both the class 142 and 144 ‘s deserve a place in historic Britain,
Yeah, it’s called the dustbin
Maybe convert it into a bus?
Wasn’t they already buses before becoming a train? Russian?
The 141 pacer prototype was a Leyland national bus in effect. They were brought out of the museum by wypte to run the metro on the pontefract line in the 90s after thr EU kindly gave some money for a couple of plywood platforms.
They were born from the Leyland national buses from the 1970’s
Far too many of these units. The scheme to give them away at end of life has moved a problem elsewhere rather than solving a problem. The sight of them sat decaying is not helpful for heritage lines. Well cared for one have a place I am sure.
Not easy to re-gauge to 597 mm?
100 percent spot on!
Many of us absolutely hated being forced to ride I these DMU’s. This will not assist their PR efforts. The same goes for the Class 150 series DMU’s too. Yes, I get it that they have a place in passenger transport heritage as one or two well preserved and maintained examples but, not dozens of them rotting in valuable Heritage Railway siding spaces.
Agree wholeheartedly
Every home ( on a full sized section) should have one–make great craft room or Shed.
There’s a reason why nobody wants it . Even the railway operating companies gave them away . Just scrap the thing , it ain’t worth preserving , half the fleet are on preserved lines awaiting a future that will probably not happen
Makes sense for them (Foxfield Railway) to ask them to take it elsewhere.
Try Booths, Rotherham.
I believe Trans Pennine Express are in the market for some trains to replace their (4 yr old) Nova 3 fleet !!!!
TBH, this doesn’t surprise me. I used to volunteer at Foxfield and I always saw 142055 sitting in the bay platform doing nothing. Their aim was to repaint it into BR Provincial Two Tone Blue and have it running on the raiway. Since it’s arrival non of that has happened. My miniature loco has done more miles in preservation that 055 has in preservation, not boasting
The Keighley and worth valley railway might take the unit as they are planning to use the heritage railway as a commuter rail line in the near future
Pitty the poor comuters- They deserved much better back in the 70’s/80’s never mib now!
Stupid idea for Foxfield- Someone has seen sense.
Good luck to KWVR with becoming a computer railway – Whole new regulatory game once non heritage!
Your acting as if the group just left it there and did nothing, there’s a thing called funding, and it doesn’t help when a bunch of goons decided to go smash up the windows the other year!
I gave this some thought and I could not see how such a short line would be of any use to anyone living in Oxenhope. There are lots of hurdles and red tape to be surmounted before a heritage line can remotely consider operating a regular, round the year service.
Other heritage groups have been down the same, well-trodden path, only to find it doesn’t work.
What makes the current idea a viable one?