Inside the Infamous Pacer: The Bus on Rails Commuters Loved to Hate, Curator with a Camera
Since we started Curator with a Camera Anthony, Bob and Thomas have worked their way through some of the most impactful vehicles in our collection including Mallard, Rocket and Flying Scotsman. Today we re rolling out the big guns and invited Andrew McLeanHead Curator and Assistant Director of the National Railway Museumto Locomotion in Shildon to The Pacer. Tumbleweed. Oh. But wait Could it be that the rudimentary and muchderided Pacer has an interesting story behind it It does, after all, feature a lot of bus components in its constructionincluding its body and engines. And just LOOK AT IT. Despite its reputation for discomfort and schreeching its way around the UK s rail network far beyond its life expectancy, the truth is that the nowretired Pacer enabled millions of people to get not just from A to B but C, D and E too. If anyone can do its story justice, it s Andrew McLean. Enjoy This gorgeous engineering masterpiece
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