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I had the 4-4-0 "City" class in mind, which (as I understand it) were designed while Dean was still nominally in charge, and built in about 1903. I believe Churchward tried out 4-4-2, bringing over three French "Atlantics", converting Albion to a 4-4-2 as a comparison, and building North Star as a 4-4-2 (though it ended up as a 4-6-0). There may have been other 4-4-2 designs. --
rbrwr
Ah! I was forgetting about the City class. I was thinking of North Star in its initial form. Thank you.
The name of the Flying Dutchman Racehorse came from an old story, and has nothing to do with Maarten Tromp, Trom was never the Flying Dutchman, that story is way older. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
84.80.157.6 (
talk) 03:38, 31 December 2015
Czech this out...
At the foot of the wikitext of this article is this line:
[[cs:Isambard Kingdom Brunel#Great Western Railway]]
It does not create a wikilink on the page. Does it have any function? Can I just delete it? -- Verbarson talkedits 21:56, 23 September 2022 (UTC)reply
If it's supposed to create an inter-language link, then it doesn't work. I suspect there may be a syntax error here. Should the cs be preceded by a colon?
Roly (
talk) 21:23, 24 September 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Redrose64: I see it, thank you. And Wikidata cannot do section links, so a local link is needed in this case. @
Roly Williams: The inter language link is there for me, under "Čeština". -- Verbarson talkedits 21:26, 24 September 2022 (UTC)reply
You're right - my mistake. I didn't recognise the name of the language.
Roly (
talk) 21:41, 24 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Clarify, please
As an American railfan myself, I do understand the fascination with minute details of a favorite railway's construction and operation. However, as a reader, I don't enjoy wading through minutiae to get the most basic facts. It seems to me the whole point and purpose of building the GWR was to haul goods and people between Bristol and London; but just when that was finally able to happen is *not at all clear* from this article.
As an Anglophile, I take a kindly interest from across the sea in British railways - the originals! - and it seems to me that a simple, concise sentence in the lede giving the date the road was completed to Bristol, and the date the first regular trains began running through from Paddington to Temple Meads, is not too much to expect from you fellows, with all your great expertise at the ready. So how about it, chaps? You're not going to leave such a simple question for a foreigner to answer, are you?
Textorus (
talk) 18:32, 20 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The first 22+1⁄2 miles (36 km) of line, from Paddington station in London to
Maidenhead Bridge station, opened on 4 June 1838.
and later in the same section we find
The GWR main line remained incomplete during the construction of the 1-mile-1,452-yard (2.94 km)
Box Tunnel, which was ready for trains on 30 June 1841, after which trains ran the 152 miles (245 km) from Paddington through to Bridgwater.
Further extensions were opened at subsequent dates, a full list may be found in MacDermot: Volume I Appendix I (pages 857-870) for lines opened 1838-1863; and Volume II Appendix I (pages 595-633) for lines opened 1863-1920. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 21:23, 20 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Bridgwater and the Box Tunnel - you Brits know where those places are, and their relation to Bristol and the line of the railway - but the rest of the world has no idea. It's rather unkind to throw around geographic names that a general reader will have to hunt up. Much nicer for you to simply state the plain basic facts in the lede, as I said above. An encyclopedia exists to inform, not mystify its readers. And no, I did not ask about when the line first opened, I clearly asked when it was completed. Two simple questions that do not need elaborate explanations or documentation.
Textorus (
talk) 22:09, 20 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Box Tunnel is linked, as is Bridgwater in the preceding sentence:
Maybe so, but you DO confuse your readers unnecessarily. Exeter is south of Bristol; London is east. It does not necessarily follow that the Bristol and Exeter is a component of the route to/from London. But hey, mate, if it's just too hard for you to write one simple sentence explaining what I asked for - which I assure you many other readers in and out of the UK would also like to see - then forget about it. You keep the article just the way you like it, and we'll all go read about something else.
Textorus (
talk) 15:58, 21 November 2022 (UTC)reply
I hope this suits: It was founded in 1833, received its enabling
Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838 with the initial route completed between London and Bristol in 1841.Geof Sheppard (
talk) 17:11, 21 November 2022 (UTC)reply