Talk:Quarrymen's carriages

Zinc Roofs ?

By "Zinc Roofs" is "Galvanised Iron" meant?

In far off N. S. Wales, "GI" was widely used as a building material for roofs and water tanks, etc. FarleyBrook (talk) 08:09, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

I believe that is correct. When the Mk2 replica made its first public appearance the roof was actually MDF as the "zinc" sheet had not arrived in time. Heritagejim (talk) 09:17, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Photos on this page

I recently changed the photos on this page to be smaller, staggered right-left and above the second level section headings. They have now been changed back. I did this because that is what the wiki style guide says they should be like! I admit my edit did not fully meet the style guide, but it was certainly closer than before. I also find it much easier to read an article when the text is not broken up by numerous large images that you need to scroll past. If anyone has a good reason for the images on this page to be as large as they are I would like to hear it. Eheaps (talk) 11:47, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi there and thanks for all the work you've been doing on here recently. I must put my hand up to this latest edit - I was making a few additions and I changed the pictures because I thought it would look and read better as the pictures are part of the narrative. The first picture I felt really ought to be bigger as in a small image you can't appreciate the 'Spectacular results' mentioned in the sentence immediately above, and as it is at the end of the introduction it doesn't interrupt the flow. The ones in the sections on the different types I felt worked better immediately after the heading and before the description, so you see the title, then the picture, then the discussion thereof. I wondered about leaving the text alongside the picture or whether it should be below, but in this case I thought it looked all right.

I've had a look at the Festipedia Guide to Style and it doesn't give limits for the image size, and certainly the first picture fits the criterion of 'extreme aspect ratio'! The others are at the beginnings of their sections and so don't interrupt the flow, indeed are the meat of the sections on a 'picture tells a thousand words' basis. The Guide has that odd statement about not putting left-justified pictures after a second-level heading, but these are actually third-level headings in this case so taken literally that does not apply here surely. It says that images can be alternated left and right, but not that they should, and in this case it made the page look very bitty and disjointed, and not always clear which section the pictures belonged to. I thought it looked clearer with each subsection consistently formatted with title, picture, text in order.

I agree that big pictures in the middle of text are a distraction but I don't think that applies in this case. George Cash (talk) 15:09, 31 August 2017 (UTC)