Talk:Rainhill trials

message: was one of the drivers to hold these trials not also that some saw George Stephenson as having a conflict of interest ? (ie he was both advising the Railway about the preferred means of haulage ( steam locomotive) and happened to be closely connected with a company making steam locomotives)  (same tale on the Stockton and Darlington, of course, but/and Edward Pease (the S&D chairman) was also a director of Robert Stephenson & Co)  Rjccumbria 14:46, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Should the Rainhill 150 Anniversary Cavalcade (1980) also be mentioned here? - I see the Sans Pareil image was taken at that event... Andywebby 23:13, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What was this event called? "Rail 150", "Rocket 150" or "Rainhill 150" ?   What was the date of the cavalcade?  (no image metadat on my old slides!) Andy Dingley (talk) 10:23, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have an official programme and ticket, I'll have a look Paypwip (talk) 16:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

text:  OK, found the official programme. It was called 'Rocket 150' and was held on 24, 25 and 26 May 1980. The programme has a forward by Sir Peter Parker, Chairman of British Railways board, Event timetable, A full list of the locomotives taking part in the cavalcade, and a site plan. Paypwip (talk) 20:43, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rainhill 150 Anniversary 

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message: The articel says: "Ten locomotives were entered, but only five locomotives actually began the tests."
This raises the questions: 
What are the names of the other five locomotives?
Who did build them and what did they look like?
--Panzerlad (talk) 12:44, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ten locomotives 

message: Was this £25 (per article), £26 (per recent change) or £25 guineas – slightly more than £26  (a guinea is 5% more than a pound: it's a pound and a shilling, rather than the 20 shillings that made up a pound). AFAIR, and which fits with the general cultural use of guineas, this prize was a round number of guineas.  Andy Dingley (talk) 11:20, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Many books give the first prize as £500, so other prizes are likely to have also been pounds, not guineas. This PDF doc says £25. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:08, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Strike that. It's far too similar to our own Perseverance (steam locomotive). We could do with checking that book by Bowen-Cooke though. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:35, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consolation prize for ''Perseverance'' 

message: This article takes an awful long time to get to the point.  I think the initial summary needs much improvement, and should mention the Stephenson's and the Rocket.CuddlySteve (talk) 16:46, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. Now done. Hallucegenia (talk) 10:36, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Summary

message: I don't think this can be described as a "contemporary" picture.  The Illustrated London News first appeared in 1842, and I see that no date or page number is given in the source notes.
It is much more likely to be later conjectural picture; the overbridge on the left looks nothing like the actual Rainhill bridge, and the grandstand was actually ¼ mile east of the bridge. (See R.H.G. Thomas: The Liverpool & Manchester Railway, Batsford, 1980, p71.)
The same engraving appears in Samuel Smiles' Lives of the Engineers G & R Stephenson - on p259 in the only edition I have, published in 1904. It probably also appeared in earlier editions, but the first of these was in 1861-2. Hyjack7 (talk) 14:25, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contemporary illustration - from the I.L.N.? 

message: I have just deleted a recent insertion which said that the Rainhill Trials were held "in St Helens, Lancashire". In 1829 St Helens was a small town about 2.6 miles away from the Trials site, so it isn't true to say they were held "in" St Helens, and "Lancashire" is already mentioned just below.Hyjack7 (talk) 13:32, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  St Helens 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. There's consensus that there is not a "substantial majority" of sources that capitalize "trials"; !voters consequently agree that, per MOS:CAPS, we should not capitalize it either. (closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 03:39, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Rainhill Trials →  – Per MOS:CAPS and WP:NCCAPS, we should use sentence case, not title case.  This event is commonly referred to in sources as "the Rainhill trials" with lowercase trials, all through the 19th and 20th centuries.  Recently there's a tendency toward more capitalization, but not enough to meet the criterion in MOS:CAPS. Dicklyon (talk) 03:25, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 22 February 2022