Talk:The wrong type of snow

message: Is this saying still used today? Alex (t) 22:47, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  Widely?  Don't know.  I use it, of course. Just zis Guy you know? 22:57, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've rewritten it with a bit of background. Hope this helps! -- Goose 18:53, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Early comments

message: The current article quotes 1991, but I am sure I remember it from the 1980s, although I have not yet found a source to confirm this.
:I remember hearing and readin about his lame excuse when it happened, and it was definitely the nineties (I'd moved to the home counties by then, and that's where I remember it from). Totnesmartin (talk) 16:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of first use 

message: Too shallow for ploughs to be of use? From someone who has lived in Canada all her life, that doesn't make any sense. The article as a whole reads like it was written, well, by someone from a place like Britain, where snow is a rare sight.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.51.169.43 (talk) 02:13, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what your point is. Snowfall is extremely rare in many parts of Britain, and a light fall can still cause problems. Snow is so rare that the expense of specialised snow-clearing equipment is hard to justify. Presumably in this case the snow wasn't deeper on the rails than the clearance gap beneath the plough. -- EdJogg (talk) 15:59, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The snow wasn't too shallow. If anything it was too deep. Either the source has been misquoted or the author was just plain wrong. Southern England normally experiences relatively small amounts of wet slushy snow that can be cleared using solid metal plate type snow ploughs. That time there was a huge dump of light fluffy snow. Whilst the snow ploughs cleared it, the snow simply flowed back again - it was like clearing water with a spade. The big snow blowers were sited in Scotland where fluffy snow is common. With a maximum speed of 30 kph and 800 km to travel, it took a long time to get them in place.OrewaTel (talk) 20:07, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

text: I've found the cited reference which states, "... caused by dry and powdery snow falling in considerable volume ..." It seems there is a variance between Wikipedia and both the cited source and the facts. I shall edit the Wikipedia article which will make this section on the talk page puzzling for future reviewers.OrewaTel (talk) 20:23, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't Make Sense 

message: This is related but may not fit best here.
The Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 Locomotives suffered a similar type of failure. Similarly, the comment was:
Said one Pennsy executive: "We were prepared for cornflakes, but we got hit by talcum powder."
As detailed in these articles in Time magazine  and the  New York Times the same solution, finding and using other locomotives, was used until fixes could be applied.  Similarly,  Budd Metroliners had to be reworked 
in order to alleviate problems with blowing snow getting into the workings.
  Interestly, the fix in both cases involved changing the air intakes to the top of locomotive/car.  Ironically, the twenty years after being fixed, the GG1's were towing the Metroliners after a snowstorm.--Lent (talk) 21:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snow causes similar US Locomotive Failures in 1958 and 1978 

message: Article makes a WP:NEO claim: "the phrase became a byword for euphemistic and pointless excuses"  that it fails to support, nor does a quick google - although it should have if this is a "byword" for anything.  As a joke about the troubles snow can cause, the phrase was certainly used. The hits I get on a gBooks search are all about actual snow.  It may be time to revisit notability.  Or perhaps redirect this to British Rail.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:31, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: A neologism tends to suggest a recently coined phrase (neo meaning "new") - "The wrong type of snow" has been in common parlance since 1991. Hardly a neologism if it's been in use for 26 years. This phrase is widely used in Britain - if the article doesn't currently support that, then the issue is citations, not notability.Cnbrb (talk) 20:11, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: ....to which end I have added some more scholarly citations which support the phrase's significance in British culture and linguistics. Seem better now? 16:17, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent, well, I'll infer approval from the lack of response. Glad that's sorted out. Cnbrb (talk) 12:40, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability

message: The website sputniknews is blacklisted as a Russian propaganda site, but this ref
Восток - дело тонкое: почему "Белое солнце пустыни" цитируют по сей день is a neutral cultural/linguistic source, useful for future references. I am just lazy to  go through the "unblaklist" procedure, maybe later. - Altenmann >talk 18:24, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  sputnik ref