Talk:Aberdeen Rly Co v Blaikie Bros

Map

Why does this article have a map of Aberdeen's railways dating from 1913, ie 59 years after the court case, and 57 years after the Aberdeen Railway Co lost its identity? The Aberdeen Railway (which ran from Guthrie, between Arbroath and Forfar, to Aberdeen) became part of the Scottish North Eastern Railway in 1856, which in turn was swallowed up by the Caledonian Railway (whose lines are shown in red on the map concerned) in 1866. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:24, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it would be great if we had an accurate one. Do you know any on Wikicommons we could use? Wikidea 13:43, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, without extensive searching, I don't. The map concerned is one of a series of 158 published in 1914 - this set was prepared between 1901 and 1914 (all of which are on commons). While older maps undoubtedly exist (the Aberdeen Railway would have needed one at the very start to show where the line was to be built, and which will now be in Parliament archives), it's a case of finding them.

Anyway, I've captioned the map, which should explain why a map (of any kind) is there. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:42, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Notability

So what makes this particular court case notable? As far as I can tell, the only relevant guideline is WP:GNG, and it seems to fall short of that, at least in its present state. Google doesn't seem to give much; does anyone have access to a few more decent offline sources? Alzarian16 (talk) 21:11, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

I think it's because it set a legal precedent, which was not formally replaced by statute for 150+ years. Similar cases brought between 1854 and 2006 would have been judged with reference to this case. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:29, 27 December 2010 (UTC)