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Originally Posted by GWR9600

Classes 141, 142 and 143 are just crap and all should be scrapped, Im not sure it is even worth preserving one of them. If that crash near Liverpool a few years ago had invloved passengers hen they would have been scrapped as the public outcry would be massive. But because the unit involved was empty the TOCs can get away with keep running them as they are cheap to run.

They blamed Automatic Train Control for the crash even though having Pacers and Intercitys on the same route is like having trains and trams on the same route, which is definetly not allowed.

Also the Pacer may not have been going the way it was meant to, it was at Winsford (on the Liverpool to Crewe line) when it was supposed to be travelling empty from Crewe to Manchester Piccadilly.

http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/repo...ord990623.html