Talk:British Rail Class 555

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Another editor has (rightly in my opinion) requested a citation for the TOPS Class 555 numbering. At the moment there is only one single reference " ("New Metro trains to be known as Class 555s". Today's Railways UK. No. 232. Sheffield: Platform 5. June 2021. p. 19.) and that cannot be verified online. As I'm not a subscriber I can't verify it myself. However, by now, six months after that I would expect more than one reliable source (WP:RS) to be confirming the same claim as fact. There is nothing. In the absence of anything other than the one source I would suggest that we drop the 555 numbering and propose a new name for the article. Thoughts? 10mmsocket (talk) 18:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Superalbs: - you put the citation request in the article. What are your thoughts? --10mmsocket (talk) 18:13, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest I had not seen that source there, as it was not next to when this number was first mentioned. I for one have never heard of such a classification before seeing this Wiki article. Superalbs (talk) 20:31, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]