Talk:British Rail Class 156

Image placement
can someone who knows how make all these images hug the right side of the page? Kingturtle 08:04, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Broken Link
Fixed the broken link leading to "Metro-Cammel Class 156" page.130.209.74.218 (talk) 11:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

changes
Changed sections to operations by regions.

Article still needs references - and still requires info on past operations - hence the various 'tags' on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FengRail (talk • contribs) 04:15, 10 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Looking at the page history some 4000 bytes were removed from the article, what happened?--Commander Keane (talk) 04:41, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Well I did some rewriting that will have compressed it a bit - also removed stuff like " On the former First North Western units the seating is in good condition, although the carpets are in a very poor state. " because.. well.
 * Also the current operators table was removed for the reasons given in the summary - ie that it's not encyclopedic to just cover current events.
 * Don;t know how that adds up to 4000? —Preceding unsigned comment added by FengRail (talk • contribs) 04:55, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I can't say I actually removed any real notable information - some of the previous writing may have been a bit verbose and repetive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FengRail (talk • contribs) 04:59, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for improving the article :-) --Commander Keane (talk) 05:06, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Missing Citations
I can't find any hint of a source for the Class 152, or for the 90mph speed record. If someone knows where these can be found (old issues of railway magazines perrhaps?) could they please add them soon, or the text will be deleted. The wheel lathe stuff in the Scotland section is a bit dodgy too, but should be possible to confirm, while the note on Central Trains units moving to First North Western is clearly wrong, so will be removed. Alzarian16 (talk) 19:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Wales
I found this photo on Commons, which appears to show a 156 at Barmouth in 2001. Can anyone tell me what company ran this service, what company the train was owned by, and whether 156s often visited Wales? -mattbuck (Talk) 00:41, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * This is (almost) a duplicate posting of that at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways. Per WP:MULTI, let's discuss it on one place: the discussion at WT:UKRAIL is already under way. -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:39, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Possible change to the title of this article
This article is currently named in accordance the WikiProject UK Railways naming conventions for British rolling stock allocated a TOPS number. A proposal to change this convention and/or its scope is being discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways, where your comments would be welcome.

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Falls of Cruachan derailment
re your edit, the RAIB report, para 24 definitely says two units were involved, neither of which was '499. Mjroots (talk) 21:26, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Citation Needed
A citation is needed for the statement "A total of 114 sets were built between 1987 and 1989 for British Rail by Metro-Cammell's Washwood Heath works." This fact is given without reveal of the source behind it. They obviously don't own this statistic, so its source needs to be listed. I added a "citation needed" following this, this can be seen in the edit history of the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tbas6059 (talk • contribs) 08:55, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * There are sources in the Description section; sources are not needed in the lead as well. That aside, which part of the sentence are you objecting to? For instance, it is demonstrably true that a total of 114 sets were built between 1987 and 1989. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 11:33, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Citation needed?
Firstly, I've noticed the Twitter citation for the off lease 156s was recently removed. I'm just wondering why as Wikipedia as an exception for Twitter citations if published a "subject-matter expert", "Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established subject-matter expert, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable, independent publications." As Richard Clinnick is the editor of Rail Express magazine I think he can be considered a "subject-matter expert" so the citation should be put back? The unit numbers for the "stored" section in the table are also strangely formatted and again, I'm just wondering why they aren't just written as normal text as they were previously? Pulsarnix (talk) 16:25, 4 January 2023 (UTC) Thanks for clearing up the formatting with the text as well. Pulsarnix (talk) 16:36, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not bothered about the Twitter source (IMO, there's just better sources out there, and the dispute about Clinnick being a "subject-matter expert" can continue forever!). Regarding the table, that's a template called . It basically emphasises that the grey ones only are unsourced. Hope that helps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattdaviesfsic (talk • contribs) 16:32, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * That helps a lot, thanks. I did look for a better source but haven't found one yet. I'd have thought the Twitter cite should have stayed until a better one was found and then it could be replaced? However as you say it isn't the biggest deal.
 * The general consensus, as far as I understand it, is to require that Tweets cited as reliable self-published sources be sent from verified accounts (specifically, the pre-Elon person-is-really-who-they-claim-to-be style of verification). Clinnick is ruled out by this qualification. Personally I'd be prepared to be flexible on this point for him, as he easily meets the self-published expert rule and I don't believe there's any doubt that it's actually him posting his Tweets. XAM2175  (T) 16:37, 4 January 2023 (UTC)