Locomotives that have been in action for part of every decade since construction.

I think a couple of ours may have been, but I am pretty certain that 30065 has... or will have, when it comes out of this latest overhaul. Hasn't run in the 2020's yet...

 

Hasn't 3205 missed the 2020's so far?

 

Apologies, had missed that! It has, but think SDR announced a plan to overhaul it... so could still make it?

 

Hence "so far".....

 

The trouble is Steve, I dont think there was a year zero. Did the Roman callander that we use today not go from BC1 to AD1? So either the first century AD was only 99 years long or @Spinner has a point.

And how come this is deemed to be the 21st centuary and not the 20th? It is after all 2024 and not 2124 this year. Discuss........

Well admit it, it does make a change from the more usual discussions on here about liveries and diesels on the back

Peter

 

The BC/AD year numbering system was not invented until 525 AD - by the monk Dionysius Exiguus - and took some centuries after that to become firmly established in the Christian World. DE set Christ's birth date as Year 1, since the mathematical concept of "zero" had yet to become established in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini

Prior to that, the most common practice seems to have been to refer to years as within the reign of an Emperor, Roman Consul or local ruler (such as King Herod). Other options were to count from the supposed creation date of the World (as worked out from Genesis or wherever), the legendary creation date of Rome (753 BC) or a point established by Emperor Diocletian in 284 AD.

 

We are in the 21st century but the 2000s. We are in the third decade of the 21st century, running from 2021 to 2030, but the 2020s.

 

Pol Pot would have disagreed!

 

Not 4588 hasn't run in 2010 to 20. 4555 is a contender

 

Thank you. So by the same token the third millenium runs from 2001 to 3000 inclusive, just as @Spinner said. And the year 2020 is part of the second decade of this century not the third, which is quite important in the context of the discussion here.

Peter

 

Myself and one of my school mates were very much of the opinion that we were the last class of students from the 20th century, we were rather happy to be millennium students, (we finished in 2000 btw) the year below us were the first ones who finished in the 21st century.

Can we get back to talking about trains btw? I’m really starting to go out of my tiny little mind.

 

Time for a Holiday In Cambodia...

The concept of a 'Year Zero' also appears in a rather poor film starring, and directed by Ray Milland, entitled Panic In Year Zero!

 

75078?

 

Missed out the 2000s.

 

Missed the 00s.