Talk:The wrong kind of snow
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[edit] Early comments
Is this saying still used today? Alex (t) 22:47, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
- Yes. Widely? Don't know. I use it, of course. Just zis Guy you know? 22:57, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
- Right now, the article is a bit sparse, and WP:NOT for definitions. I suppose it might be expandable, but the article name is a bit vague. Perhaps merge with Rail transport in Great Britain? (I've category-tagged it for now.) --Alan Au 07:48, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
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- I've rewritten it with a bit of background. Hope this helps! -- Goose 18:53, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Date of first use
The current article quotes 1991, but I am sure I remember it from the 1980s, although I have not yet found a source to confirm this.
- I remember hearing and readin about his lame excuse when it happened, and it was definitely the nineties (I'd moved to the home counties by then, and that's where I remember it from). Totnesmartin (talk) 16:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Testing
My recollection of the story is that British Rail (BR) had done a risk assessment and decided that this type of snow was so rare in the UK that it didn't justify the expense of shipping engines to Switzerland to carry out the tests. Of course the media criticized this decision, but they had the benefit of hindsight. In this particular instance I think BR was unlucky rather than incompetent, and the criticism was a little unfair, but it was a good joke against BR which most people enjoyed at the time. There was a political agenda for attacking BR at that time: BR was already widely regarded as incompetent, and big business was already looking forward to the profitable opportunities of rail privatization. Now that we have the privatized rail companies to compare with, BR doesn't seem quite so bad after all, does it? From a historical perspective, BR certainly had many faults, but that doesn't mean everything they did was wrong, and I think portraying BR as incompetent in this particular example is POV. (Not sure how much of this I can put into the main article, unless I can find contemporary or more recent sources.) --RichardVeryard (talk) 03:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
