The original Pacer
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The original Pacer by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.
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The original Pacer
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 14 Jul 2018
If you have ever suffered from travelling on one of the unsprung "Pacer" diesel trains over the last 35 years, it is the guys at the Railway Technical Centre you can blame. This was their 1975 prototype "railbus" (also called the LEV1 for "Light Experimental Vehicle") developed with Leyland Motors from a single-decker bus. It belongs to the Science Museum but is kept at the Wensleydale Railway.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.304006
Longitude
-1.563378