Talk:Gantry (transport)

According to the OED...
OED definition 2b:
 * A structure crossing several railway-tracks to accommodate signals.


 * 1889 G. FINDLAY Eng. Railway 79 The fitting shop at Crewe turns out about nine signals per week, including composite or bracket and gantry posts. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 144/1 In cases where room must be economized, signals are usually placed on narrow overhead bridges or ‘gantries’ spanning a number of tracks. 1939 R. S. LYONS Wonders Mod. Industry iii. 35 Ten rail-joints, then Exe Station; ten more rail-joints, then signal gantry, bridge. 1958 DAY & COOPER Railway Signalling Systems viii. 124 The train stops must always be beside the line to which they refer, but the signals, with which they must be connected may be on a gantry or bracket some distance from that line.

So much for the charge of neologism! JKeck (talk) 03:39, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Works for me. I'll remove the tag, since the person who placed it did not provide a reason in either here or in his edit description.  &mdash;Onore Baka Sama(speak 13:53, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

A suggestion to move.
I suggest Gantry (road sign) be moved to Gantry (transportation), see Talk:Railway electrification system. Peter Horn User talk 00:13, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * What about Overhead catenary bridge? Overhead catenary bridge? as a section. Peter Horn User talk 14:45, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Why do UK motorway signs sit on top of the gantry?
I have vacationed twice on six continents and as far as I can tell, the UK is the only jurisdiction that always puts the motorway signs on top of the gantry, rather than in front of the gantry. That unusual practice should be explained in the article. That doesn't make sense because it forces drivers to look well above the horizon line when their eyes need to stay on the road. It also creates way too much distance between arrows and the lanes to which they correspond (in that a driver has to pan up their visual field, read the sign, then see the arrow below it, and then pan down to see which lane that arrow and sign correspond to). As anyone who has studied car accidents thoroughly is aware, any time that a driver spends not looking directly at the road is dangerous. At 110 kph or 65 mph, things can go bad very fast in less than a second. --Coolcaesar (talk) 17:24, 9 May 2021 (UTC)