big thanks to Plym Valley Railway for letting me do this. for those who are interested in doing this, here is the link. just scroll down to the section about driving the pacer: www.plymrail.co.uk/drive-a-train
I do really like that railway, I remember when they had just received their pacer and they were letting people look around and they were testing it. Very nice to see it running now
Very jealous! I got to drive a pacer 142 and 143, but my limit was 10mph! Once you're taught how, the trains seem very easy to operate, I like to think if I didn't live too far from a depot, that I could have been a pacer driver! So glad you enjoyed your pacer journey!!!
This is so damn cool. I really wanna do this and I'm prepared to make the almost 8 hr journey down to Plymouth for this. I actually applied to be a train driver at a TOC and got as far as an invite to an assessment centre, so maybe I could chat about the experience when I have my interview lol
I miss the pacers so much. They had their quirks, but they were good. To me, they were just a normal train back in around 2014, but now I see how important they were before the 21st century
Wow! I'll be sure to check this out someday, seems like an awesome experience! I said to someone about this saying you could drive a train, we (as most people do) refer to them as bus trains, which reminded them of them instantly. Also stating that they wouldn't trust me to drive it. 🤣
I’ve never driven a national rail train. I have operated the D stock on the District line (when they were in service) and the ‘92 stock on the Central line which is the line I work on!
Quite a few have survived..and it looks like Plym has 2 cl 143s and the 142, there is a 142 at Foxfield Railway in Staffordshire, and one based at Crewe owned by LSL charter company..I did a mainline railtour on a 142 last week, it was quite surreal, love`em or hate `em, they have in their own way made their mark in railway history, and now getting bit of a following..
Those 142 Pacers were terrible trains to ride on they bounced around so much some people had motion sickness. We used to call them nodding dogs. Alan Merseyside.
Yes, they did. But ONLY on jointed track. On welded rail and more usually at slower speeds on jointed, they were absolutely fine. I was never on one that broke down. They did nearly forty years of service whilst only built for 9 and they saved countless rural lines from certain closure, due to their remarkable cost effectiveness. But they sometimes 'bounced a bit'. Yeah. Whatever.
As I lived down the Exmouth Line I saw These dam things A lot and I hate them you would never get a seat even after Exeter Central even if people got off more would get on so you would have to stand up most of the times I always hoped to get a 3 car train but sadly we never did
And so why exactly is the fact you apparently 'never got a seat ' somehow the train's fault? I'd suggest you were part of the problem, not the solution and so surely the 'hatred' should be directed either to the other passengers, or perhaps more sensibly, towards the operations department of your local train company, for not putting on a larger train and. I would suggest, NOT perhaps the train itself, which has absolutely NO control over that situation.
i checked the website, and its 80 pounds to drive the class 142 on this railway. meanwhile down under you have to pay over $2,000 for ONE PERSON to drive a DIESEL SHUNTER. the steam engines are even worse, $3,000 for 1 person to drive!
This is the 2 car class 142023 was new to the southwest of England 🏴 had worn the original chocolate 🍫 and cream livery. The gangway within unit. The 2 car class 142023 was with the other 12 x 2 car class 142 pacer trains 🚊 are 142015-022/024-027. All of the 2 car class 142 pacer trains 🚊 have a toilet 🚻 🚽 in the DMSL - Driving Motor Standard Lavatory 🚻 🚽 and are standard class accommodation only. Class 142023 is with class 143618. It is a one ☝️ single track 🛤️. It is called Plym Valley Railway 🚃. This train 🚊 has been saved by not being scrapped because it went to Devon in the southwest of England 🏴 is previously before the year 2023. Still wearing the original NT - Northern livery. The pacer trains 🚊 are made from Leyland National single decker buses 🚎 🚍 🚌 . These crappy 💩 142 pacer trains 🚊 make a lot of noise. They are wheel 🛞 and track 🛤️ wear. 👍
big thanks to Plym Valley Railway for letting me do this. for those who are interested in doing this, here is the link. just scroll down to the section about driving the pacer: www.plymrail.co.uk/drive-a-train
I want you job a guard
if only i lived in the uk...
What are doing
@@ethanstransportvlogs45 same ..
But the thing is that I can't even go to UK because of war in Ukraine...😭
Imagine someone just saying in a normal conversation
“Off to drive a Leyland National!”
“But you said you were going to drive a train…?”
“Yes.”
I do really like that railway, I remember when they had just received their pacer and they were letting people look around and they were testing it. Very nice to see it running now
Yes!!
Very jealous! I got to drive a pacer 142 and 143, but my limit was 10mph!
Once you're taught how, the trains seem very easy to operate, I like to think if I didn't live too far from a depot, that I could have been a pacer driver!
So glad you enjoyed your pacer journey!!!
The almighty pacer you must respect it.
I drove a 3 unit Pacer around the Scunthorpe steel works rail network for two hours earlier this year. Definitely one for the bucket list.
This is so damn cool. I really wanna do this and I'm prepared to make the almost 8 hr journey down to Plymouth for this. I actually applied to be a train driver at a TOC and got as far as an invite to an assessment centre, so maybe I could chat about the experience when I have my interview lol
The pacer driver experience looks sick.
Only 80 quid pretty good price for that to be fair When im old enough ill surely give it a try
TM: sees the horn
Also TM 1s later: eheheheh
Me: An Australian who has no idea what he's talking about for the first 1 minute and 45 seconds
I wish they did something like this in Queenscliff or the V/Line
I'm so jealous!
Just hijack one :)
Me too.
@@MatStuff r/cursedcomments
Hi vex
Absolutely brilliant. Loved every minute of that!
average pacer enthusaist vs average 80x fanboy
Well done. You looked like you was having some great fun there mate. Excellent handling of the Class 142 Pacer. I have subbed to this awesome channel!
This is absolutely awesome, and as a train buff myself, will definitely do it when able to visit UK next.
I love the sound of them 142s
I miss the pacers so much. They had their quirks, but they were good. To me, they were just a normal train back in around 2014, but now I see how important they were before the 21st century
same they were great
Agreed
I know right like why it’s sad they were my favourite 2 coach trains
@@khmcc5556 with an exception being the northern class 144s, they were mainly 3 car
I wasn’t expecting this type of rail replacement bus..
Old joke ik but idc
Nice one! I drove a 141 on the Weardale Railway some years ago!
i subbed instantly
Lol I was thinking of doing this the day you went. Great video and I enjoy the vlog style.
Stepford Expresses favourite fast train
i love this train
Wow! I'll be sure to check this out someday, seems like an awesome experience! I said to someone about this saying you could drive a train, we (as most people do) refer to them as bus trains, which reminded them of them instantly. Also stating that they wouldn't trust me to drive it. 🤣
Well done you 😊👍👏👏👏👏👏. The controls I reckon were a lot easier than a modern train would be!
Northern goes southern
The 458/0 is BEAUTIFUL. The 458/5 makes my ears BLEED.
A pacer seems like the perfect train for the Island Line
NO
That's incredible - thanks. Very jealous - nice one!
I guess I’ll. be able to drive one soon
Great video! I hope I can go there someday
this is so cool dude
I’ve never driven a national rail train. I have operated the D stock on the District line (when they were in service) and the ‘92 stock on the Central line which is the line I work on!
There at the Wensleydale railways as well you can also do a driving experience there
Nice I wish them was in Missouri USA 🇺🇸 that be cool sounds nice
id love to do this. i have took these trains all my life on the liverpool to manchester line
I hope they have put some pacers in museums for people to have a look.
Quite a few have survived..and it looks like Plym has 2 cl 143s and the 142, there is a 142 at Foxfield Railway in Staffordshire, and one based at Crewe owned by LSL charter company..I did a mainline railtour on a 142 last week, it was quite surreal, love`em or hate `em, they have in their own way made their mark in railway history, and now getting bit of a following..
imagine u drive a train in real life but fail your qualified driver training in scr 💀
Once I was at the Wensleydale railway and the driver did not say get out while I drive so I saw him driving! It was 142078
Driving waterline in real life
LUCKY!
dis was fun to look at and e Nice video
Today we have youngsters pulling the Pacers. I guess... Good for them.
Last pacer was a Dennis Dart also Class 141,2 & 3 were so horrid
keep ur videos up u doing well
If you drove a pacer, you can drive a train.
I dare you to drive a 1999 nissan skyline r34 h
Nice video 👍😎 Tyseley got 3 the class 144s 144014,144023,144019
congrats on becoming a TD irl
Very nice video, likes from me
nice job
pacer go brrrrrrrr
Matty: am going here
Good old Pacer
Geoff Marshall would of loved this
I live in plympton, is it worth for me to walk down there and give it a go?
Those 142 Pacers were terrible trains to ride on they bounced around so much some people had motion sickness. We used to call them nodding dogs. Alan Merseyside.
Yes, they did. But ONLY on jointed track. On welded rail and more usually at slower speeds on jointed, they were absolutely fine.
I was never on one that broke down. They did nearly forty years of service whilst only built for 9 and they saved countless rural lines from certain closure, due to their remarkable cost effectiveness.
But they sometimes 'bounced a bit'.
Yeah. Whatever.
@dancedecker they were absolute garbage and they spent break down because there was nothing to break
Cool!
Can we actually drive the trains there or only you? Would love this. Also is this a running railway station or more of a railway museum?
Brilliant
he... WHAT
They come down to plymouth miniature steam and I drove one off the miniature train
TRAINSOPTTING MAYHEM DRIVING A TRAIN!!!!!1111!!
An uwu sticker ad will never come of the side of my screen
Used to work those as a guard , by time I went driving they were retired.
You're lucky, they were an absolute nightmare in slippy season
@@xaiano794 I've driven light rail on street running
Car tyres and rail leaves a lovely slippy surface🤣
We must live close because I am in exmouth and u seem close I think we were on the same train once
As I lived down the Exmouth Line I saw These dam things A lot and I hate them you would never get a seat even after Exeter Central even if people got off more would get on so you would have to stand up most of the times I always hoped to get a 3 car train but sadly we never did
And so why exactly is the fact you apparently 'never got a seat ' somehow the train's fault?
I'd suggest you were part of the problem, not the solution and so surely the 'hatred' should be directed either to the other passengers, or perhaps more sensibly, towards the operations department of your local train company, for not putting on a larger train and. I would suggest, NOT perhaps the train itself, which has absolutely NO control over that situation.
thats my 18th sorted
142078 is now with the Weardale Railway
but epic vid tho mate
Cute video.
bus on rails
Pretty much
damn it my stalker is class 143
Coming out of retirement for his pleasures
Pacer
Every trainspotters dream
i checked the website, and its 80 pounds to drive the class 142 on this railway. meanwhile down under you have to pay over $2,000 for ONE PERSON to drive a DIESEL SHUNTER. the steam engines are even worse, $3,000 for 1 person to drive!
Get yourself a flight, hotels and the drive and you'll spend less
yeah because it’s all about you
P A C E R
How did you do that? What website was it?
I have a vid suggestion you go to Appleby your can drive a train for £5! It’s the Eden valley railway
Can u
I hope so
Do you have a link?
Trainspotting!!!! Why you didn't make a sneek peak sunday?! There's new one!
I made a youtube short 💀
Oh ok
Can a dog drive a pacer train.
TRAINSPOTTING MAYHEM?
Pym ? we're abouts is Plymouth? aa iam Burnley lancs do they do vouchers there
pacer scrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
NEW SNEAK PEEK.
where is that place cause i want to do that
Plym Valley Railway
it's class 142
How old do you have to be to drive?
How old do you need to be to do this experience?
16
Ah ok. Does the EX-GWR one do the experiences too?
Whaaaaaaa-- PACER’S ARE GONE THOUGH!!!!
its a preserved unit lol
I have 2 words for you. . .
p r e
s e r v e d
is the guarding video coming soon? :)
It's already out as a YT short
@@Trainspotting_Mayhem ah my bad, thank you!
You are drive
Smash
You look like how you sound.
Nice face+ 100TH COMMENT!
You hate the pacer
Bro I don’t understand no one else would ever get to do this your so underage
This is the 2 car class 142023 was new to the southwest of England 🏴 had worn the original chocolate 🍫 and cream livery. The gangway within unit. The 2 car class 142023 was with the other 12 x 2 car class 142 pacer trains 🚊 are 142015-022/024-027. All of the 2 car class 142 pacer trains 🚊 have a toilet 🚻 🚽 in the DMSL - Driving Motor Standard Lavatory 🚻 🚽 and are standard class accommodation only. Class 142023 is with class 143618. It is a one ☝️ single track 🛤️. It is called Plym Valley Railway 🚃. This train 🚊 has been saved by not being scrapped because it went to Devon in the southwest of England 🏴 is previously before the year 2023. Still wearing the original NT - Northern livery. The pacer trains 🚊 are made from Leyland National single decker buses 🚎 🚍 🚌 . These crappy 💩 142 pacer trains 🚊 make a lot of noise. They are wheel 🛞 and track 🛤️ wear. 👍
You gave me a seizure quarter way through your comment with the emojis
#Face_reveal
I have shown my face before