Talk:LNER Class A4

message: Moved. due to naming conventions Duncharris 17:01, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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message: 'has the official record as the fastest steam locomotive'
Surely more accurate to say something like 'is generally regarded as the fastest steam locomotive'. There is no official record that I know of. 86.171.187.9 (talk) 02:52, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. Pinkbeast (talk) 15:33, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's as official as any rail record. There's no international body like the FAI for aviation. The speed was officially recorded by LNER engineers in the dynamometer car. The astonishing French 200mph record in 1955 was recorded by the SNCF and no one ever quibbles about that. Roger Bannister's four-minute mile of 1954, though ratified by an international body, the IAAF, was just timed by blokes at the trackside in overcoats with stopwatches (and you can see them in the photos of Bannister breaking the tape at the finish, one of them with a pipe in his mouth). Again, nobody quibbles about that. There's something disagreeable about online pretences that Mallard somehow didn't really do what Mallard quite obviously and provably did in fact do. Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:52, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
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message: Rather than wade in I wanted to know if anyone else found the links for the locomotives names in the table pointless and frustrating. I would assume that the links should take you to a more detailed article on the actual locomotive, but in fact they take you to the general article about what it was named after. Maybe this should be changed.  Nshimbi (talk) 12:25, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The convention is that loco names are linked to the person, place or object that the loco is named after; when linking to articles on individual locomotives, we link from the loco number. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:46, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Is the table in the paragraph 'Preservation' grossly (and incorrectly) overlinked? 109.145.109.77 (talk) 15:45, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, . --Redrose64 (talk) 20:59, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name links in the table need modifying 

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message: The "fate" column is completely uncited and seems to have undergone arbitary changes to exact location and date (and hence at least some of what has been there was not just uncited but wrong). Other than Wedgewood and the six preserved A4s, it also seems like trivia. I like kettles as much as the next person but the exact date one was cut up is rarely of interest; the class is not even one of those where some were scrapped early but some hung on until the world ended in 1968. I suggest if no good cite is forthcoming, these dates and locations be removed. Pinkbeast (talk) 00:16, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 14:33, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
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