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Two of your BR Dieselisation Programme Entries are being subbed

Post 1

h5ringer

Hi Jon,

I've been sub-editing the first two Entries in your comprehensive series on British Rail Dieselisation:

A87769507 - The Change from Steam to Diesel...
A87769516 - The Shunters

Apart from the usual sub-editing tasks, there are two things in particular I would like to draw to your attention to.

Firstly I am mindful that these are not stand alone Entries, but rather part of an ongoing series, with others currently in PR. As such, I would like them to have titles that connect them together as a coherent project.

I have therefore changed the title of the first Entry to "End of the Line for Steam on British Railways: The Dieselisation Programme". Subsequent Entries will then be named as per the second one: "The British Rail Dieselisation Programme: The Shunters". When they have all been picked and edited, we can retrospectively add a links banner at the top of each Entry to form a List of Contents.

The second point concerns the penultimate paragraph in the first Entry, your comments about Ernest Marples. The Guide Editors agree with me that leaving out the final two sentences in your original paragraph does not make the statement you are making about road lobby influence any less powerful. These are allegations and are not directly relevant to Dieselisation. The Eds, and I, hope you will agree to them being omitted.

This an excellent series Jon and we are keen to see them all on the FP in due course.

Have a read through the edited versions and get back to me as soon as possible with any thoughts or comments you may have.

Thanks,
h5


Two of your BR Dieselisation Programme Entries are being subbed

Post 2

h5ringer

Any progress here Jon? I'd like to get these back to the Eds in the next day or so.


Two of your BR Dieselisation Programme Entries are being subbed

Post 3

h5ringer

I'm sorry you haven't been able to give the final nod of approval for these Entries Jon, but I must now return them to the Eds as they stand.

See you on the FP and I look forward to subbing the rest of the series.
smiley - cheers


Two of your BR Dieselisation Programme Entries are being subbed

Post 4

Tavaron da Quirm - Arts Editor

Hi Jon, I hope you have time.

We have some pictures for your Entries but are not sure which are suitable so it would be great if you could have a look:
http://public.fotki.com/Tavaron/trains/

Please tell me which picture is good for which Entry or if you have others that you would prefer please send them to artists at h2g2 dot com (but we can't get emails over 4mb, so split it up if you want to send a few pictures)

thank you!

Tav


Your BR Dieselisation Programme Entries are being subbed

Post 5

h5ringer

Hi Jo smiley - brave
I'm about to start sub-editing the reminder of your Entries in this series.

The new A-numbers are:
A87772819 The Type 1s
A87772828 The Type 2s
A87772837 The Type 3s
A87772846 The Type 4s and 5s

It may take me a few days to deal with them. In the mean time, could you have a look at the pictures Tavaron has assembled for your consideration (post #4)

Thanks smiley - ok


Your BR Dieselisation Programme Entries are being subbed

Post 6

the_jon_m - bluesman of the parish

Sorry, I've been swampped with work and a teaching course, so haven't been around for a while


Some possible pics from my collections


http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_jon_m/6240261047/in/set-72157624517306418
for type 4 & 5

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_jon_m/7433489816/in/set-72157630266528388
for type 1

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_jon_m/6239979367/in/set-72157627737693157
or
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_jon_m/4362318200/in/set-72157623321286873
for type 3 ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_jon_m/4625676632/
for shunters


Your BR Dieselisation Programme Entries are being subbed

Post 7

h5ringer

Jon, we are very close now to publishing all six of your Entries as a project. Photos have been added to all of them except A87769507 End of the Line for Steam on British Railways: The Dieselisation Programme.

I have taken the liberty of looking at some of your other pics on flickr and was very taken with this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_jon_m/6832782248

Would you be willing to let us use it for the End of the Line entry? The Artists might want to crop it a shade to focus on the loco and the steam.

Please get make to me asap because it would really make a lovely intro to the series.

smiley - cheers Jon
h5ringer
Guide Editor


Your BR Dieselisation Programme Entries are being subbed

Post 8

the_jon_m - bluesman of the parish

fine by me smiley - smiley


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