Talk:Meldon Viaduct

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A fact from Meldon Viaduct appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 April 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Meldon Viaduct, on Dartmoor in Devon, is one of only two surviving lattice truss railway bridges in Britain?

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Where?[edit]

Between which stations does the bridge lie? Tabletop (talk) 06:34, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

After Okehampton

Before junction for North Cornwall Railway to Padstow. Tabletop (talk) 09:09, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK error[edit]

Why is this Warren truss being described as a lattice truss in the DYK? They're not the same thing. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:50, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just out of curiosity, how did even a cursory review fail to catch this? It seems to me that the first thing you'd do, for reviewing the hook, is to look up what a lattice truss is. And the wikipedia page of Truss Bridges has pictures of the Warren truss and the lattice truss, explaining each in very straightforward language. And Andy Dingley is quite correct: not only are they not the same thing, they don't look anything like each other. Reference 2 explicitly says this is a Warren truss in its second paragraph. MarkBernstein (talk) 14:08, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also concerned about the claim "one of two iron lattice truss railway bridges remaining in the United Kingdom (the other being Bennerley Viaduct ..." - is Darcy Lever viaduct a different type? There's another on the same line, you go under it if you approach Bolton from the south along the A666. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:43, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's possible that there are only two lattice truss bridges left in service (which this isn't), but there are a good many still standing, but disused, with paths and cycleways across them. Try Armstrong Bridge in Jesmond, Newcastle for yet another. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:54, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this article now being edited repeatedly to make it even worse? It's doubtful enough that there are only two lattice truss bridges left. It is thus obviously even less accurate to say that there are only two generalised truss bridges (of any type) left. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:47, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Trestles and Trusses, Cast and Wrought Iron[edit]

The first paragraph states "Wrought iron lattice piers to support the cast iron trusses". I think it is more likely that the trusses are cast iron and the trusses wrought iron.

Chris.Bristol (talk) 13:27, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]