Talk:The Railway Series

message: In all the books I read as a child Controller was spelt Comptroller. I know the language is being Americanised but can we at least draw the line at The Fat Comptroller? - (JM_Butler not signed in) 194.145.134.17 16:10, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know the Fat Controller was always the Fat Controller not a Comptroller.  Is Comptroller an americanism??? Penrithguy 16:36, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Whether or not this is a legitimate Americanisation, the character's name was always The Fat Controller (except of course when he was The Fat Director :P ). None of us will stand by and let this be changed. Gonzerelli 20:41, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it is not an Americanism. It was the standard UK way of spelling a person who comptrolled something. (e.g. Comptroller of Taxes). I was given a book from The Railway Series in the 1970s and it was spelt thus. I was confused when I went to school and saw a teacher using the modern spelling. Jm butler 18:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It may be the standard UK way of spelling, but in every Railway Series publication I've seen it is spelt 'Controller'. In fact, the only other time I've heard the term 'Comptroller' was in the Simpsons episode where Lisa gets the cheat notes from Nelson and gets a grant for the school. In short - the character's name is 'The Fat Controller'.Thehalford 14:40, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

text: I have many of the Railway Series books from my childhood and in every one of them it is spelt Controller, and I always remember it as such. Have never ever seen it written as Comptroller, although that is a legitimate English word in other contexts. Hyperman 42 (talk) 22:47, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: The Fat CONTROLLER

message: The difference between Railway Series characters, and TV Series characters is fairly clear. There are characters who are solely Railway Series characters, and others which are solely TV Series characters.
Further, with many characters common to both series, there are differences in the characteristics. As a very basic example, Bill and Ben do not have numbers in the TV Series, but they do in the Railway Series.
Please be clear about whether characters discussed are from the Railway Series aspect, or the TV Series aspect. Gonzerelli 11:24, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Characters - Railway Series or TV Series

message: The Railway Series books have been released as audiobooks in several formats: 7" vinyl on the Delysé label; 12" vinyl on the Decca label; and audio cassette on the Argo label. (See The Railway Stories for details.)
Unfortunately, I only have a precious few of these recordings (and none from Decca, yet) so there is a lot of missing information.  I have bolstered the information thanks to some contacts on eBay, which has helped. But there are still many holes to fill.
So, if you have examples in your collection, could you please see if you can fill in any gaps?  NB - please do not guess the stories contained on any particular recording - they may not follow the book order exactly.
EdJogg 13:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You probably aren't going to read this but I've found a collection of them on YouTube. One of them is on a channel called NewController01, and  the other is on a channel called The Railway Series Storyteller, and the latter even includes the Forwards to each of the stories. Triviatronic9000 (talk) 04:02, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The Railway Stories]] - the books in audio format (request for help)

message: What I want to do is create pages about a description of the Railway Series books each, with a link of each book leading to its own page, with a description. Is this okay? --imdanumber1 01:54, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe User:HonestTom is already working on such a page. It would be more efficient and effective to have all of the books in the one article, not having individual pages for individual books. This is to save on superfluous content, and having an excessive number of articles. Will check this out with HonestTom tho. Gonzerelli 10:12, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Railway Series Books

message: Someone added a multiple issues template to the article recently, with the edit summary (NO refs!!!!!. 
My initial assessment is that none of the four issues identified in the template are valid, either now or when the template was posted, nor have any of them been discussed here. 
The one issue I see is that inline citations are lacking. I guess that's what the editor meant by the (also inaccurate) edit summary. Andrewa (talk) 18:13, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issues? 

message: Both spellings occur here at paragraph 6. Google shows almost everyone else says Eric Marriott, including this source but not this one. Art LaPella (talk) 14:37, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriot or Marriott? 

message: I haven't time but half these links to characters just link to a main article sometimes not even mentioning them, the links need removing.Yellowxander (talk) 22:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong links 

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message: In the text it claims (without citation) that the Thin Controller was Edward Thomas. My understanding was that it was more likely to be L.T.C. Rolt, who was the first general manager of the line after it became volunteer-led. Many of the stories date from that period, being based on real incidents given in accounts in his book "Railway Adventure". Also, for Sir Haydn and Peter Sam to be involved, that again corresponds to the period immediately after the preservation society took over. I suggest the text is altered, but ideally there should be some documentary evidence or a reference for who the Thin Controller was intended to represent. Hyperman 42 (talk) 22:54, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thin Controller - identity