Talk:GWR Iron Duke class

message: "Lord of the Isles (When built, temporarily named Charles Russell)"
Which Charles Russell are you referring to? Maybe Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen? WouterVH 22:38, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Charles Russell disambiguation

message: You ask for confirmation that the photo is really of an Iron Duke. It looks the same as a drawing I have (made from the original engineering drawings) except the ones in the photos have cabs (of sorts) and round smoke box doors. Cabs were fitted later, and smoke box doors maybe. But the later Rover class by Joseph Armstrong looked almost identical.  Chevin 19:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: aah.  I'll have to find someone to email then.  Still if you can't tell the difference, then no-one'll know ;) Dunc|☺ 21:15, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Photograph

message: While I appreciate the need to provide a definition for some of the more obscure names in the class, I can't help feeling that whoever compiled this list, in spite of their good intentions, has gone slightly overboard. Is it really neccessary to explain just what a "Wizard", "Dragon", "Sultan", "Tornado" or a "Swallow" is in this article? It seems a bit superfluous and, in one or two cases, silly.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.29.21.176 (talk) 12:52, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Name Definitions

message: On our page on Thomas Blake Glover it mentions he was responsible in 1865 for bringing the first steam railway locomotive called "Iron Duke" to Japan which he demonstrated on a short track at Oura in Nagasaki. There was a picture of this "Iron Duku" (sic) on a TV program and it looks like one of these. Does anyone know anything about this engine - Japan's first steam engine?
And here: 
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:YNI0_HyaWXIJ:www.bxscience.edu/ourpages/auto/2008/12/1/44529561/japan%2520and%2520industrialization.pdf+"Iron+duku"+Nagasaki&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
"A lo-comotive named the ‘Iron Duku’ was imported to pro-vide the power. This name was presumably aJapanicised form of the ‘Iron Duke’ of the Great West-ern Railway in England, of which it seems to havebeena replica"  (Msrasnw (talk) 00:36, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Daniel Gooch's Iron Duke was a  gauge locomotive, whereas Iron Duku was a  one – just half the width.  The surviving illustration suggests that it was of similar proportions to Gooch's locomotives, but is there a record anywhere of its other dimensions? Geof Sheppard (talk) 08:12, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron Duku 

message: Er, that can't be right; it's Bulkeley isn't it?
86.9.95.119 (talk) 17:57, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: True, have fixed it, thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:39, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bukeley 

message: At present the text says:
"In January 2010, the replica arrived at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway where it will form part of a static display of Great Western Railway locomotives celebrating the 175th anniversary of the GWR."
Is that still true? Do we know when? Something written three years ago ought really to have some date definition, please. Afterbrunel (talk) 21:34, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It was moved to Didcot a couple of years ago but was put in store pending the availability of a crane to move it into the Railway Centre there. The NRM list has recently been updated to show that it is on loan to Didcot, but I haven't yet heard for certain that it has finally arrived yet.  It's always "soon...". Geof Sheppard (talk) 13:15, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In case anybody is wondering - the Didcot Railway Centre (DRC) site has no road access. Standard gauge locos that arrive by road get unloaded in the western car park, placed on a siding in the angle between the main line and the Chester line (at , and are then shunted to the eastern end of the station and back into the DRC. The same movement is made by the wagons making coal deliveries. Such a move is obviously impossible for a broad-gauge vehicle. The problem is how to get a crane to a position where it can reach both a road and the braod-gauge tracks at Didcot, the latter being at the northern end of the site, in the angle between the Chester line and the East Curve (at ). --Redrose64 (talk) 23:02, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron Duke replica "will"