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==Roy Castle "Hope" trains==
Robin, help please. 600 is shown as hauling these in 1994 but [[March 25]] shows 1995. Can you check the appropriate SVR News and make the correction? Thanks--[[User:Patrick Hearn|Patrick Hearn]] ([[User talk:Patrick Hearn|talk]]) 07:00, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
:I see why there is a discrepancy. My original reference in this article, Stock Book 9 from 1998, states 25 March 1994. SVR News 114, Spring 1995, p. 6. has a picture captioned "''Army 2-10-0 600 Gordon departs from Kidderminster for Highley with the first of three Roy Castle 'Cause for Hope' special trains on Saturday 25 March 1994.''" Checking up, 25 March 1994 was actually a Friday; 25 March 1995 was a Saturday. The main season in 1995 only started in April; before then a Sunday only service ran to Highley, so a day of Saturday specials to Highley in March 1995 would have fitted in with that. Given the picture was published in the Spring 1995 SVR News, it therefore looks likely that the running date was that year with the caption being a mistake which was perpetuated in the stock book.--[[User:Robin|Robin]] ([[User talk:Robin|talk]]) 15:28, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
