Talk:LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower

Latest comment: 9 years ago by Andy Dingley in topic Rename article?

Rename article? edit

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)Reply

Keep It's not invented. See
  • Boddy, M.G.; Neve, E.; Yeadon, W.B. (April 1973). Fry, E.V. (ed.). Locomotives of the L.N.E.R., part 2A: Tender Engines - Classes A1 to A10. Kenilworth: RCTS. fold-out sheet inside back cover. ISBN 0-901115-25-8. OCLC 315757685. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Coster, Peter J. (2005). The Book of the A4 Pacifics. Clopthill: Irwell Press. p. 116. ISBN 1-903266-56-4.
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. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:55, 29 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
OK, I thought it was renamed in '46 with the Thompson scheme. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:01, 29 November 2014 (UTC)Reply