Talk:NBR 224 and 420 Classes

Well done
Just thought I'd leave a message - this is a really nice article. I would imagine if the lead was expanded a little, this would definitely be a Good Article candidate. Bob talk 20:59, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow, thanks! -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:22, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

224 recrossing the Tay Bridge
I was interested to read that 224 crossed the Tay Bridge again on the 29th anniversary of the disaster, Dec 28 1908.

But the article states that on that occasion it was used on the Sunday evening mail train. Dec 28 1908 was a Monday - the nearest years in which Dec 28 was a Sunday were 1902 and 1913. So either the re-crossing wasn't in 1908, or it didn't involve the Sunday evening mail.

Maybe a contributor with access to the cited source could check?

Guyal of Sfere (talk) 15:40, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The cited source is Rolt & Kichenside 1982, p. 102 - which states On December 28th, 1908, the twenty-ninth anniversary of the disaster, she worked the same Sunday night down mail to Dundee over the new Tay Bridge. Maybe it means a train that started off on Sunday 27 December 1908 and ended its journey on Monday 28 December 1908. Or maybe Rolt didn't realise that 1908 was a leap year and assumed that 28 December 1908 was a Sunday, as indeed it would have been if 1908 was a common year. We just don't know. The point is verifiability - we report what the sources state. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 20:10, 30 May 2021 (UTC)