Date: 09/09/2018

Jake Berry, MP for Rossendale and Darwen, has promised that the awful pacers will be scrapped by next year and replaced with new electrical services. Pacers were first introduced by British Rail between 1980 and 1987 as the answer to a shortage of trains, made using the same parts as buses, which is why the trains have a similar seating format to an older bus. They were originally intended as a short-term solution only to be used on smaller rural lines.

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End of the line for Pacer trains

Bolton News

THE GOVERNMENTS Northern Powerhouse minister has revealed that a set of trains brought on to railways in the 1980s will finally be removed from

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Location: Bathgate [3rd]
Company: Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway
23/03/1986 David Panton

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Company: Manchester and Leeds Railway
06/05/1987 David Pesterfield

Two pairs of Pacers pass each other at Salford Central on 08 October 2016. The pair on the left are heading to Manchester Victoria just one stop away while the pair on the right are off to Southport.
Location: Salford Central
Company: Liverpool and Manchester Railway
08/10/2016 John McIntyre