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Entry: City of Truro - 100mph Steam Locomotive - A13607732
Author: Galigan - U1341611

Here we go. What does anyone think?

Looks good to me, and obviously fills a gap. The very first para needs some attention:

'...when it was said to break the 100mph speed barrier for steam railways, just one year after it's introduction'. >

...when it was said to HAVE BROKEN the 100mph speed barrier for steam railways, just one year after it's introduction.

You could do with some links, either external or internal e.g. to the National Railway Musem, Southampton, etc etc

How did I miss that one? Thanks BilAl. I'll route around for some links now, there's a few good places I can think of.

yey, more trains


I'm leaving the same message as I left on your Scotsman entry

we only link to entries that are already in the edited guide, therefore you should remove the link to the mallard entry. When this and the Flying Scotsman entry get picked the editors creat duplicate entries and these duplicates are the ones that go into the edited guide. Therefore the current link will not link to the edited guide entry. Don't worry, whenthese entries are picked and being subbed / going through the final stages before they hit the front page, somebody will put in the links

ooh, and the City of Truro appeared in the Thomas the tank engine stories as well.. He came to visit duck, promting Gordon's jib, never trust a domeless engine !

Is that not in there? Something must be done!

Nice entry Galigan...
one minor typo: did you mean 'booted' or 'boosted' in the footnote?

Other than that it looked good, anything else to add to it?

Yeah I did mean boosted. Corrected it now, thanks Rockhound. I don't think there's anything else to add. I realise it isn't as long as some but unless there's anything anyone else wants to add I think it's perfect.

length isn't everything!

No worries. It's perfect then. One of my favourite locos I might add.

Always liked it (the loco!) after seeing it on a school trip to Swindon: one of my favourites too

You need to tell us what this ... no. 3440 ... means. It sort of pops up out of nowhere. Try reading it pretending you don't have knowledge that it is some sort of GWR nomenclature.

It's the number given by the railway company, in this case the GWR. I've added a footnote to that effect.

Good man.

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