Talk:Hownsgill Viaduct

Merge suggested
This artidle should be merged as part of the Hownes Gill Viaduct article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.64.25.104 (talk) 02:14, 24 August 2013 (UTC)


 * support merging, but what's the best name? Andy Dingley (talk) 12:18, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Support merging, can I suggest Hownsgill Viaduct per the BBC and this sign. Edgepedia (talk) 14:41, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

MERGED: more common name is Hownes Gill and not the localised Hownesgill. Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 20:48, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Name of Viaduct
Could I re-open the question of the name of the viaduct? Although some references give Hownes Gill, some give Hownsgill. The Ordnance Survey have the name of the stream as Howns Gill; the nearby farm is Howns Farm. Secondly, I think it is normal in place names like this to combine the adjective into a single word: thus Hownsgill Viaduct not Howns Gill Viaduct, and indeed the OS give it as "Hownsgill Viaduct". Compare, for example, Ribblehead Viaduct, not Ribble Head Viaduct. A visitor to the spot will find that adjacent is the Hownsgill (sic) Tearoom and the Hownsgill (sic) Bunkhouse). I suggest that the article should be renamed "Hownsgill Viaduct" and in the text mention should be made of the alternative spelling in some references.Exbrum (talk) 14:28, 25 August 2014 (UTC)Exbrum (talk) 08:33, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

google Hownes Gill: 1570 results. Google Hownsgill: in excess of 25000 results. AFAIK the area has always been known locally as Hownsgill, the bridge itself, as the Gill Bridge. (I speak as a native of Consett.) Incidentally, there is a cross in contrasting brick on one of the pillars. When I was at school we were told that it commemorated the architect, who, fearing the design was not sufficiently robust, commited suicide by jumping form that point. Can anyone shed any light on that?. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.167.143.126 (talk) 09:04, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

I have requested the move and it has been actioned already. Will make consequential changes when have time.Exbrum (talk) 19:24, 29 November 2015 (UTC). Now done.Exbrum (talk) 12:45, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

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Line removed from Waskerley to Lydgetts Junction pre-1978
The article states that the line over the viaduct was closed in 1980 and track removed by 1985. The line removed from Waskerley to Lydgetts Junction pre-1978 as I recall spending many a day in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before the Consett Steelworks closed in 1980, walking along the Lanchester line from Delves Lane to Lydgetts Junction, then over the viaduct and onward to Waskerley with no lines in place. So the citation date needs correcting. Conrad Sidey (talk) 17:38, 13 April 2023 (UTC)