Talk:LSWR 0298 Class

Size of class
The description of the class under the first paragraph of history seems to conflict with that at both:


 * http://www.bodminandwenfordrailway.co.uk/steamlocos/30587.html
 * http://www.brc-stockbook.co.uk/Beattie.HTM

which both imply a much larger class than this article (85 against 12). Presumably they count this article's "70 similar locomotives from Beyer, Peacock" as part of the class. I don't know enough to know which is the better way of looking at it.

Unfortunately there is no explicit cite for this paragraph, and although there are several book references there is no way of tying them to this part of the article. I've added cite needed tag, to try and help sort this out. -- Starbois (talk) 13:03, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hopefully what I've done will help. Most of the Beyer Peacock engines came in batches of six. The chronology was 70 from Beyer Peacock 1863-71 (in 10 batches of 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 12, 8, 8), 3 from Nine Elms in 1872, 12 from BP in 1874-5 (2 batches of 6). Bradley's 1965 book makes no distinction between the last 12 and the earlier engines; however the three Nine Elms engines (33, 36, 76) and the final six from BP (44, 325-9 of 1875) incorporated detail differences - the six of 1874 (34,201/2/98/9,314) seem to have been similar to the first 70. The six 1889-94 rebuilds comprised locos built 1868/71/4/4/5/5, so were not confined to the last 12; although the final three survivors were, being built 1874/4/5. -- Red rose64 (talk) 17:31, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

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