User talk:Mav62

I live in Australia and have a 30 year career in the railway industry. I have often wondered at the overlooking of Armstrong Whitworth's contribution to British locomotive building. They are well known in this country for building what were at the time our largest locomotives, and almost certainly the largest non-articulated locomotives built in Great Britain. (They were in advance of the 4-8-4 built for the Chinese, one now preserved at York NRM). Similarly, the engines built for the Central Argentine Railway in the late 'Twenties were large and technically advanced. I have a good picture of the F.C.C.A Pacific, but don't know how to upload it yet. O.S.Nock in his book "The British Railway Steam Locomotive" does not even mention AW, which in view of its post WW1 contribution is extraordinary.

I have only touched on AW's contribution to diesel locomotive development - that too deserves recognition.

Someone really needs to write about their military production, which I suspect was their real focus. Without that, my contribution about locomotives unbalances the entry.

Their significance to Newcastle-on-Tyne must also be huge. Regards Mav62 (talk) 06:59, 10 July 2008 (UTC)Mav62[reply]

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The Westland[edit]

Please note that it not in correct wikiformat - please read into material about creating articles - your contributrionm might seem right to you - please read carefully WP:MOS and the introduction Satu Suro 13:21, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have gone though an added some links, and formatted the references - you can see the changes I made here. Anyway, it is good to see another person around here interested in railway history. Wongm (talk) 00:33, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a close look at wongm's and I edits you will see its always wotrth looking for links and variant format spellings of names - the big problem with the trans is that no-one has done a specific article about the trans express separately from the trans australian railway line article yet Satu Suro 01:16, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks wongm, nicely cleaned up. The picture with the article is not really appropriate - it is a locomotive, not the train. I have a nice one of it at Midland in 1926 behind a new Pr, but I am not permitted to upload pictures yet. I an email you a copy, and you can upload it, if that is OK with you. I am happy to write a piece on the "Trans" - is there a template I can use? Mav62 (talk) 01:48, 11 July 2008 (UTC)mav62[reply]

South Australia[edit]

We try to not leave links inside text - it is very easy to make them into refs please look at what I have done - thanks Satu Suro 13:26, 12 July 2008 (UTC) Oops I had misread your attempts at links at other wikiepdia articles - we simply apply the two square brackets on either side of the word of the tile of the article - '' title '' cheers and the 4 tildes are enough they leave your sig - you dont need to add any further really ! Satu Suro 13:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please give it a go - for references and for links - its not that hard - thanks Satu Suro 10:42, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DRG Class 06[edit]

Hi. I have checked the details against another (more detailed) written source and they tally. Krupp was the manufacturer of these two beasts, although Borsig, BMAG and Henschel all tendered their own designs. The three cylinders were 520mm in diameter and had a 720mm stroke; that may be hungry but they were the heaviest and most powerful express locomotives in the Deutsche Reichsbahn, so maybe that's not surprising. The article is translated from German Wikipedia, but I have cross-checked the details against Eisenbahn Journal Typenblätter, Band Nr. 1, Baureihen 01-59, Archiv 1/2002, Horst J. Obermayer. The other German websites seem to regurgitate German Wikipedia. Bermicourt (talk) 13:04, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I can't find a figure for tractive effort; it doesn't seem to be commonly quoted in the German literature for some reason. In the infobox template I copied from German Wikipedia (and half-translated so it automatically converts to English once you add the title!), tractive effort (Tractionsleistung) is listed under diesel locomotive parameters and starting tractive effort (Anfahrzugkraft) is a general parameter that isn't much used for steam locos. Odd... It would also be good to add an image - they certainly looked quite impressive. Bermicourt (talk) 17:34, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Photos for SAR 500[edit]

Hi, I'm no expert on the copyright rules, but my basic understanding is that you are only clear if the author (photographer) has been dead for 70 years (some countries 100 years). Even if the photo was taken in 1927, if the photographer was a youngster, say 17, he could theoretically still be alive, albeit 98! If it's a company photo you may be able to get permission, but Wikipedia doesn't really like stuff unless it's 'open source' i.e. copyright-free. But don't take my word for it, try asking a Wiki commons expert. Also try searching commons for an alternative photo. HTH. Bermicourt (talk) 13:52, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]