142055 - 55705 & 55751 - Class 142 Driving Motor Second & Driving Motor Second Lavatory

Home Railway

Cambrian Railway (Llynclys)

Location History

Foxfield Railway Sep 20-May 24

Current Location

Cambrian Railway (Llynclys)

Cambrian Railway (Llynclys) May 24-Present

Current Status

Under Restoration

Current Livery

Northern Rail

TRA Designation

4

Owner

Wayne Skeffington & Simon Thomas

Website

Record Last Updated

18 August 2024

Preservation Modifications
None

Preservation Information
142055 was the 19th Class 142 to be preserved (in 2020), although the origins of its preservation effort go back further. Its last home was at Newton Heath (Manchester) under Northern Rail before preservation and movement to the Foxfield Railway in September 2020. Unlike most Pacers which were either bought privately or by railway societies, 142055 was the subject of a public enthusiast effort in the shape of the "Pacer Rail Group", who were set up with ambitions to preserve a Class 142 set.

18 months of deep cleaning and preparing the unit for passenger service was going well before vandals struck the set, smashing many windows and setting the team back considerably.

After a long period of inactivity it was decided 142055 had no future on the Foxfield Railway, and moved to its second home at the Cambrian Railway in 2024, where it displaced a Class 101 set at their Llynclys site.

Future Plans
To reverse the vandalism and continue to improve the set before it can make its preservation debut at the Cambrian Railway (Llynclys).

142055 newly formed up at its new home the Cambrian Railway at Llynclys, 9/8/24. Simon Thomas

Car 55705 of 142055 is stabled in the bay platform at Foxfield, 9/4/22. Darren JB

142055 shunting at Foxfield, 24/4/21. Oli Kirrage