The Pacer Family: End of an Era
By Fred Kerr
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Fred Kerr
Fred Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1948 where he gained an interest in railway locomotives from both the LMSR and LNER companies whose services permeated the local network. When his parents moved to Corby in 1956 the local steelworks provided further interest from its mix of freight services, including seeing the last of the Beyer Garrets and the replacement Standard Class 9Fs whilst the industrial locomotives of the internal steelworks network offered further insight into the variety of steam locomotives. This was a time of change and during the 1960s the interest in locomotives included the new order of diesel and electric traction without reducing the interest in steam traction. While his interest in Diesel Traction led to his early involvement with the Diesel & Electric Group and its preservation activities during the 1970s, his move to Southport in 1982 restored his opportunities to return to his first love of viewing steam locomotives at work and this album records some of the locations that he chose to visit and the locomotives that he was able to photograph.Today his interest continues as a life member of the A4 Locomotive Society, Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and Ribble Steam Railway whilst he also support bodies concerned with preserving steam locomotives, diesel locomotives and infrastructure extensions.
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The Pacer Family - Fred Kerr
Section 1:
Prototype Vehicles
1.1: LEV1 – Leyland Evaluation Vehicle 1
The venture began in 1977 when BR’s Derby-based Research Centre and British Leyland joined forces to investigate lightweight vehicle technology, based on the combination of a BR 2-axle chassis supporting a Leyland National bus-body. The Leyland vehicle was chosen because it was produced in modular form by a modern plant at Workington thus allowing vehicles of different length to be provided.
Initially the vehicle was unpowered and was towed at speeds of up to 80 mph coupled between two coaches in order to check ride quality, suspension performance and internal noise levels. The tests began in June 1978 and ran on the WCML to Carlisle following which the vehicle returned to Derby for the fitment of a drive train. The vehicle became identified as Leyland Evaluation Vehicle No 1 (LEV1), bearing Departmental number of RDB 975874, with a drive train comprising an under-floor Leyland 510 engine (rated at 200 hp/152 kW) coupled to a Self Changing Gears (SCG) mechanical gearbox. At the same time, LEV1 was fitted with a bulbous fairing above the cab windows, removal of doors at one end of the unit and the fitting of mesh grilles to the bus-type windscreens.
The vehicle was released for trails in June 1980, with a break for a visit to the USA in 1980 for evaluation, and when they were completed its importance to Railbus development led to it entering preservation with the National Rail Museum (NRM); after a period of storage it moved to the North Norfolk Railway in June 2004 on longterm loan and where its restoration to working order began; in 2012 it was moved to Shildon where, as at December 2016 it is on display.
A close-up view of the bulbous front addition above the cab windscreen and the coupling surround.
LEV1 stands in Sheringham station yard on 16 August 2004 whilst awaiting a start to its lengthy restoration to working