(25 Aug 2014, 2:13 pm)Marcus wrote I absolutely despise Pacers. To be honest, I'm more of a steam person myself. The only diesels that I feel are worthy, are Deltics! And they left the mainline in 1981! I think six have made it into preservation. Going back even further, if you swapped Pacers for A4 Pacific's, the world would be much better!
They are flaming awful, they always smell like pee, I don't use the train because it only runs every 2 hours for most of the day and because the Pacers are awful and the last few times I used we'd end up stuck in Thornaby because of either signal failure or it broke down and sitting on a Pacer not moving for 45 minutes plus the journey time is not a fun way to spend your birthday.