Talk:British Rail Class 08
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[edit] Naming convention
There is a discussion about the naming convention to use for articles about British locomotive and multiple unit classes at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (British railway locomotive and multiple unit classes). Your comments are more than welcome. Thryduulf 22:23, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Power
In the variants table, the figures of approximately 50 tons were first posted without saying what they were, then later converted to kN, then labeled "power", which does not make sense-that much tractive effort on a loco this size would be useless as the wheels would slip. I have relabeled them "weight", which makes sense and is consistent with the other table.
I have also removed the 350hp/260kW power figure as I doubt its correctness: I have seen both 400hp (eg. here) and 350hp quoted. It appears most likely that early versions were 350hp and the final standard 08 400hp, but I have yet to verify this, and I do not know whether any 350hp versions were actually classified 08 (rather than 11).--QuantumEngineer 11:55, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
