Talk:NBR 224 and 420 Classes
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Redrose64 in topic 224 recrossing the Tay Bridge
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 | A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 23, 2011. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that no. 224 of the North British Railway (pictured post-accident) was the first inside-cylinder 4-4-0 and the first tandem compound to run in Great Britain; and the locomotive involved in the Tay Bridge disaster? | |||||||||
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Well done
editJust thought I'd leave a message - this is a really nice article. I would imagine if the lead was expanded a little, this would definitely be a Good Article candidate. Bob talk 20:59, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
- Wow, thanks! --Redrose64 (talk) 21:22, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
224 recrossing the Tay Bridge
editI was interested to read that 224 crossed the Tay Bridge again on the 29th anniversary of the disaster, Dec 28 1908.
But the article states that on that occasion it was used on the Sunday evening mail train. Dec 28 1908 was a Monday - the nearest years in which Dec 28 was a Sunday were 1902 and 1913. So either the re-crossing wasn't in 1908, or it didn't involve the Sunday evening mail.
Maybe a contributor with access to the cited source could check?
Guyal of Sfere (talk) 15:40, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
- The cited source is Rolt & Kichenside 1982, p. 102 - which states
On December 28th, 1908, the twenty-ninth anniversary of the disaster, she worked the same Sunday night down mail to Dundee over the new Tay Bridge.
Maybe it means a train that started off on Sunday 27 December 1908 and ended its journey on Monday 28 December 1908. Or maybe Rolt didn't realise that 1908 was a leap year and assumed that 28 December 1908 was a Sunday, as indeed it would have been if 1908 was a common year. We just don't know. The point is verifiability - we report what the sources state. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:10, 30 May 2021 (UTC)