Talk:GER Class A55

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@Andy Dingley: could you please explain how "an" before "zero" is correct? This must be a British variation that I'm not familiar with. -- Fyrael (talk) 15:58, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There are two issues: one is that agreement is based on pronunciation, not spelling. Secondly, 0-10-0 is not pronounced as "zero-ten-zero" but as "oh-ten-oh". "Zero" is very rarely used in spoken English, outside mathematics and radio transmissions. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:17, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well that last statement is not at all accurate. In English, a written "0" is far more often pronounced "zero" than "oh". However, if in the context of locomotive designations it is nearly always pronounced "oh" then I'm fine with leaving that. You may want to put an editor comment mentioning it though, so that others don't try to correct it in the future. -- Fyrael (talk) 16:51, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This article is in British English, not American. Zero is rare. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:09, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Performance section - weight of train[edit]

Every source I have seen says that the design criteria for the A55 decapod were 300 tons to 30 mph in 30 seconds - so I think the performance section in this article as on 21/5/2020 is wrong - I tried correcting it and got it changed back - and at the time I corrected it the speed was quoted as 60 mph, which no one had bothered correcting previously Mrrash (talk) 13:46, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It got changed back because the previous version was cited to Ahrons, a book which I happen to possess (albeit a late-20th-century reprint), and so I checked it very carefully. You provided no source of any kind, and we have a policy on verifiability. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:20, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]