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British Rail Class 90 edits

Stop changing back the class 90 thread, all information that i and many others put on is accurate. (Personal attack removed) DuanLW87035 (talk) 00:55, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Information in Misplaced Pages must be verifiable and/or referenced - Misplaced Pages is not for original research - see WP:V Danners430 (talk) 09:35, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Scot-rail.co.uk

Nice spot of spotter site scot-rail.co.uk I have removed a few more references leaving {{cn}} in its place. Any others we should be having a crack at? 10mmsocket (talk) 18:38, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Not that I’m aware of at the moment - Scot-rail is just 100% user contributed, almost like a wiki Danners430 (talk) 20:10, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

British Rail Class 33 revert

Hi there. As a relatively inexperienced user, I'm not sure I understand why you've reverted my Class 33 edit, or what I should do to avoid it. D6515 is no longer under overhaul at Eastleigh, it's been back in use at Swanage for some time - I've seen it in use there, and it's also visited other heritage railways in the last couple of months. Not really sure what I could cite to say that it's operational (very few of the other entries in that column have citations). Must confess that having such a straightforward edit removed does rather dissuade me from further editing! Mwsmith20 (talk) 14:38, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Mwsmith20, edits on Misplaced Pages should be cited using reliable sources - these could be magazine articles, news websites or books. For example, some good sources are RAIL Magazine and other such publications - they often have articles which detail stock moves, both on the mainline network and between heritage railways. Unfortunately I haven't found any sources which state it's back in service at Swanage - if there is such a source, then the edit is of course perfectly valid. Danners430 (talk) 10:36, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Class 25 D7659 edit on 'British Rail Class 25'

Evening Danners, contrary to your opinion, D7659 is no longer undergoing repairs at Peak Rail and has been in service since 30th April 2022. I give you 3 sources as proof: 1) Peak Rail website gives the locomotive as one which is 'Arriving at Peak Rail in 2022', in other words one of the locomotives which is operating trains: https://www.peakrail.co.uk/ 2) The main Peak Rail social media channel on Facebook regularly advertises when the locomotive is running, including at the recent Mixed Traction Gala held earlier in August: https://m.facebook.com/100083362060025/ 3) The locomotive also made an extended visit to the North Norfolk Railway from early June until late July in operational condition: https://www.nnrailway.co.uk/class-25s-norfolk-visit-extended/ Hopefully this evidence is to your satisfaction, but if you still refuse to accept this, then I suggest you visit Peak Rail in person to see for yourself that it is now operational. Regards, GW1450 — Preceding unsigned comment added by GW1450 (talk • contribs) 19:31, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi GW1450, if you wish to re-add the information to the class 25 page, then the sources can be added as citations to the article. I am not a gatekeeper to the article - the sources belong in there, not on my talk page.

Your edit was undone as the information was unsourced at the time - like I said, you’re welcome to add the information with sources. Danners430 (talk) 19:40, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

British Rail Class 170 edits

Good morning Danners430. Can I just reiterate that I am a new user to this site and that I don’t edit things often. I think you need to be more patient please as whilst you might be using a computer, I am stuck with a phone so it takes much longer for me to edit things, so when you spend 5 seconds undoing things I feel like I have wasted my time even though my edit is completely valid. Instead of undoing it, why not try and find the source yourself? It can’t be that difficult as you seem like you know what you are doing.

170270-170273 are all with EMR now. I have had to edit this page twice now, and I am not sure why you are changing this back for no reason even though both 170270 and 170272 have been photographed as being in service with EMR, and 170271 is at Barrow Hill and is being prepared. All have left TfW.

By all means if you want the information to be wrong, fine. But I accept no responsibility for the inaccuracies you are applying.

Thank you for your time. ScotRail02 (talk) 11:13, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi ScotRail02,

Information on Misplaced Pages must be verifiable - it’s built on verifiability, not truth. Photographs aren’t reliable sources under WP:UGC, and Twitter can really only be considered reliable if coming from a verified source (although I definitely agree a discussion should be had following recent events).

It’s not up to other editors to find sources for you - if you wish to add information to an article, it’s up to you to source it. Danners430 (talk) 11:58, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

A better description than what I could ever write can be found at the bottom of this talk page. Danners430 (talk) 12:16, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Class 397 ORR auth

Is trimming a source's title like this acceptable? I genuinely don't know the answer, but it strikes me as somewhat irregular. Cheers. XAM2175  18:02, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

I’ve honestly never considered it either - personally I regularly trim source titles when sourcing my own content, when the “real” title is unwieldy or un-descriptive in some way. A perfect example is when citing Tweets from verified accounts.

I’d be interested to discover the official policy - in my eyes, and I’ll happily be corrected, a source title should simply be a one-line summary of the contents of the source Danners430 (talk) 18:10, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Yeah I can understand a level of subjectivity when it comes to things like Tweets that don't have a "title", per se – personally I use either the opening sentence (a bit like a modern-day incipit) or a direct quote of some other part of the Tweet that best encapsulates the point – but I would hesitate to endorse that view across the board. My understanding is that the detail of the citation has the primary purpose of allowing another person to find at some point in the future the work being cited. Obviously this is somewhat less of a concern now given that we have hyperlinks and web archives, but from that original perspective it follows that the title should be quoted near-enough to exactly (beyond very minor adjustments such as those along the lines listed at MOS:CONFORM, or perhaps some level of truncation). Hence using a newspaper article's headline verbatim, or indeed – a recent discovery of my own – using a magazine's cover date even when this results in a citation having a date some days or weeks in the future. XAM2175  19:29, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

That makes sense - in the example being discussed, the “trimmed” title was still a direct quote of the “header” paragraph, albeit trimmed and sentence cased. I’m obviously happy to leave as is, still an interesting thought however Danners430 (talk) 19:36, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

British Rail Class 47

Thanks, looks like it was an accidental paste from something else I was working on :-) Neils51 (talk) 10:55, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

RI242

Two points:

1. At British Rail Class 390 § Avanti West Coast refurbishment, please remember to update the "as of" caption when you update the table, and;
2. Are you sure about the edits you made at British Rail Class 91 § List of Class 91 locomotives to the entries for 91110, 91111, and 91119? To the best of my knowledge they've neither been renamed nor reliveried, but rather their special liveries have been properly painted on (instead of being vinyl wrappings as before).

Thanks. XAM2175  18:26, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

For the class 91 edits, I quote the article in Railways Illustrated - "91107 Skyfall has become the final member of the operational fleet to move to Wabtec Doncaster for repainting into the new LNER InterCity 225 oxblood colour scheme". Also from the same magazine, but page 23 - "all of LNER's remaining operational Class 91s have now been repainted following the release of 91107 in the Intercity-derived livery". To me that means that all the LNER Class 91s in service are in that livery.

As for the Class 390 table, I missed that point when I was editing - it's a bit of a mess in terms of syntax, so it probably got lost for me! Thanks for correcting it. Danners430 (talk) 18:33, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

No worries re the 390 bit. Re the 91s – the article is referring to the ones that were left in VTEC livery, but I grant you that the wording is tricky: all of LNER's remaining operational Class 91s have now been repainted following the release of 91107 in the Intercity-derived livery says that all have now been repainted, but not that they were all painted into LNER IC. The three specials were in fact all painted in their existing special liveries last year; there's coverage of 91119's repaint in this RailAdvent article for a start. Note the paragraph 91119 will re-enter passenger service on the East Coast Main Line in due course and will join 91110 ‘Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’ and 91111 ‘For the Fallen’ in having a unique livery, whilst the rest of the LNER 91s will receive a rebrand into the LNER ‘InterCity Inspired’ livery. XAM2175  18:54, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

That makes sense - sadly I didn’t have the context of other articles and info about the other locos. That’s why we work together on here! Thanks for your assistance with this. Danners430 (talk) 18:57, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Exactly! Thanks very much for your efforts too. XAM2175  18:59, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

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Many thanks for your trust :-) Danners430 (talk) 15:50, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

British Rail Class 378

TfL has agreed in the agenda (https://board.tfl.gov.uk/documents/s19641/fc-20230308-item13a-class378-lease-part1.pdf) for

1. (2.1a) Terminating the existing 2007 lease and the 2013 lease relating to the Class 378 fleet
2. (2.1b) Purchase of the Class 378 fleet as described in this paper.
3. (4.4) The operational and fleet strategy is to retain the Class 378 fleet in operations on the London Overground until life expired in 2044

And they have explicitly mentioned on their budget in the cite PDF page 24 on the Other section:

(22/23 includes the purchase of the London Overground class 378 rolling stock (£281m), which will reduce cost

and risk compared to the current leasing arrangements.)

This could be interpreted as they have already completed or in process of transferring ownership from QW Rail Leasing.

Littlerabbit506 (talk) 08:08, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Ah, I completely missed that in the original source - however, it doesn't look like it's already happened, at least there's nothing saying it's gone beyond a proposal yet. Perhaps it would be better to have that in the article as a proposal, instead of something that has "already happened"? Would be worth linking the second PDF too. Danners430 (talk) 08:21, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Class 415

Hey just want to say that there is a source that does have it 90.242.161.180 (talk) 14:10, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Class 66

Regarding Class 66, 66721 named Harry Beck - I saw this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxko_0GF5c which has this locomotive passing through hence my adding it to the named locomotive list. I cannot find any references to when it was actually named though :( Sfyffecollins (talk) 14:59, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

YouTube is not a reliable source as it falls under WP:UGC. A suitable source would be a magazine or news article detailing the naming. If it's only just been named, then it'll likely be in the next edition of Rail or Railways Illustrated, or similar publications. Danners430 (talk) 15:05, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

In fact, XAM2175 has found a source and re-added the info :-) Danners430 (talk) 15:14, 23 May 2023 (UTC)