Talk:LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower

Rename article?
Currently at LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower

Yet under the LNER this was 'LNER Class A4 4496 Golden Shuttle ', briefly 'LNER Class A4 8 Dwight D. Eisenhower ', and under BR and in preservation it's '60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower '. At no point has it had the combination as currently named.

Also note that it's D., not D

Should we name according to a rigid and invented scheme, or according to names and numbers it actually carried? Andy Dingley (talk) 20:14, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep It's not invented. See
 * The changes prior to withdrawal were:
 * 4 September 1937 new as 4496 Golden Shuttle
 * 25 September 1945 renamed Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * 23 November 1946 renumbered 8
 * 29 October 1948 renumbered 60008
 * so you missed one: it was 4496 Dwight D. Eisenhower for 14 months in 1945-46. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:55, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, I thought it was renamed in '46 with the Thompson scheme. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:01, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * so you missed one: it was 4496 Dwight D. Eisenhower for 14 months in 1945-46. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:55, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, I thought it was renamed in '46 with the Thompson scheme. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:01, 29 November 2014 (UTC)