Talk:Widnes–Runcorn Transporter Bridge

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Name[edit]

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Do you have any official title for the bridge? It seems to have had a variety of "accepted" titles, and these apparently depended on which side of the bridge the author lives. Whimperley in his Widnes history calls it "Widnes-Runcorn" while Thompson calls it "Runcorn-Widnes". The souvenir brochure at the opening calls it "Widnes & Runcorn" (Thompson p.19), while at its closure in 1961 the souvenir ticket says "Widnes Transporter Bridge" (Thompson p. 37). In the absence of an authoritative title for the bridge, I think we should leave it as it is. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 08:18, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was reading about the bridge in the library today, I read 6 different local history books and none of them use this name at all. It is called the "Transporter Bridge" in all the literature I read. The definite article is only used when "Transporter Bridge" starts the sentence and there are no references to either Widnes or Runcorn in the name. I think this page should be moved to "Transporter Bridge (Widnes, Runcorn)", the place names are only required for disambiguation. I'm not going to move it because the grammar on the disambiguation isn't clear to me. It could be "Transporter Bridge (Widnes and Runcorn)".

First Transporter Bridge[edit]

The Wikipedia article on Transporter Bridges says that the first such bridge was built in Portugalete, Portugal and not Bilbao, Spain as stated in this article. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Barney Bruchstein (talk) 19:06, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Approach road on Widnes side[edit]

The article states with citations that: "Approach roads of 320 feet (98 m) on the Widnes side and 470 feet (140 m) on the Runcorn side were built."

I find this puzzling. As a resident of Mersey Road from 1947 to 1968 I had always assumed that the houses in Mersey Road predated the building of the bridge, and certainly the Mersey Hotel ("The Snig") at the bottom of Mersey Road is older. Therefore I can't see how a new approach road was needed or created. The Smile on the Cat (talk) 12:25, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]