Talk:Vulcan Foundry

Refactoring the article body

This article needs some work on reducing the number of paragraphs: there is one for each sentence! Peter Shearan 06:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

It's long enough to add some headings. Simply removing paragraphs will make it unreadable

Have added headings. Hope it's an improvement. Biscuittin 13:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

If you remove the paragraphs there won't be any words! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mddkpp (talk • contribs) 19:45, January 15, 2012 (UTC)

End of loco production

Article states - locomotive production ended in 1970 - yet "Vulcan Works, Newton le Willows" is recorded as producing locomotives up to 1980 - eg http://www.rutlandrailwaymuseum.org.uk/news.php says "GEC “Stephenson” 0–6-0 Diesel Electric locomotive, Works No. 5578, built in 1980 is believed the last standard gauge locomotive built at the world famous Vulcan Foundry at Newton the Willows." - that's 1980 - what abut other gauges ??? Mddkpp (talk) 01:44, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Gudgin and Fire-Fly

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What's the issue with Fire-Fly and the Gudgin book? Andy Dingley (talk) 16:56, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry Andy, I've only just seen your query. The details of Fire-Fly and other very early engines are evidently taken from the "official" Tayleur/Vulcan works list which was concocted in the 1890s by joining two lists of works numbers.

The earlier list had numbers of all jobs done (e.g. repair of canal lock gates) while the later list (from 1853) had works numbers of locomotives only. Somebody - probably the notoriously unreliable Clement Edwin Stretton (1850-1915) - filled the gaps with his own guesswork: details of dozens of locos which are never heard of again, some of them quite impossible, while omitting others now known definitely to have been built by the firm. I wrote articles for the SLS 'Journal' and 'Railway Archive' some years ago explaining this in more detail (see refs.)Hyjack7 (talk) 14:12, 11 March 2016 (UTC)