This page contains notes on the terms used in Locopage.
I should note that I can not claim that Locopage is 100% accurate
simply due to the large amount of information on the site, and also the
fact that I do it as a hobby. Therefore, if you do find mistakes,
please don't hesitate to contact me, my email address is below.
I have just completed a design change to affect those locos sold
from
one operator to another, and also rebuilds; such that the
complete history of these locos will all be on the page for the
original class; there won't be a continuing series of pages, one for
each new operator.
Names: I have only listed the "official" names given to
locomotives. Some locomotives that have been acquired by preservation
groups have been given names by these groups; I have (generally) not
listed these
names.
Preserved: It is well worth noting that this category covers a
wide
range. Most preserved locomotives are with museums or preservation
groups,
while a few are on static display. Of those locomotives with museums
and
preservation groups, the range is of those in operational condition
(and
do mainline running), all the way to those that just sit and rust away
(there
is one group in particular here that comes to mind). I have indicated
in
the main table on locomotives which preserved locomotives are in
operational
condition (that I know of). Any amendments would be welcome. I have
also set up a Preserved Locomotives page
listing all preserved
locomotives included on Locopage.
Dates: These now cover entry-into-service dates only, as
keeping the withdrawl and scrapping dates updated has become too great
a workload. I have placed an "?" where a
particular date is unknown.
In service dates: some of these are delivery dates or dates of
trials.
Generally, the greatest difference would only be about one month
anyway;
in some cases it may be a few months. If there is a big difference,
could you please let me know. For locos that have been transferred,
"---" in this
column indicates that they are not (yet) operational, or being used for
spares.
Comments: This
indicates whether a locomotive is scrapped, preserved, sold, rebuilt,
or whatever else. A blank entry indicates that the loco is in service
or stored.
I won't always be updating details on loco scrappings in the future,
due to the workload.
Note that the information for withdrawl and scrapping (and for
operational
locomotives) can be readily found from sources such as Motive
Power's "Departure
Road" section; Railway Digest's "Locoshed Express" section;
email lists such as LocoShed and Ausloco, and Railpage's Forums. See
the Links page for links to the relevant
websites.
Colours of pages: I now have a Cascading Style Sheet - locopage.css - controlling the text,
background,
and hyperlink colours for all of the web pages on Locopage. The colours
are
either the colour name or hexadecimal (red-green-blue) format. This
makes
it much easier when making changes, etc. If you have any comments on
the
page colours (readability), please pass them on.
Details are as follows:
* "color" = text colour
* "background-color" = background (page) colour
* "A:link" = colour of hyperlinks that have not been visited
* "A:visited" = colour of hyperlinks that have been visited
* "A:active" = colour of hyperlink currently selected by the mouse
* "td" = text colour in a table
I have also included the names of directories and filenames; note that
these
are however uppercase in locopage.css whereas the actual directories
and
filenames are lowercase.
Hopefully, the rest of the information should be self-explanatory -
please let me
know if it
isn't.
A downloadable database is also
available
You can download a database of the
information (MS Access, 350kB zipped, 5MB unzipped) if you wish. This
has more complete information than
this website (in terms of tech specs and fleet details), and is updated
quarterly, along with the major updates for Locopage. The Zip file
also contain a guide to the information (Adobe PDF).