Talk:Sankey Viaduct

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This link has been posted on the article several times, by myself, to show the true whereabouts of the Sankey Viaduct. It is in Earlestown, Merseyside for one part and is in Warrington, Cheshire for the other part. This is so because it straddles the Sankey Brook which forms the boundary between St.Helens and Warrington Boroughs and also between Merseyside and Cheshire.

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?txtkeys1=Sankey

The name for arches is 'spandrels' not spans. 80.192.242.187 14:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC) JemmyH.

Map?
Unfortunately this article is a prime example of why Wikipedia is an amateur, and amateurish, resource and will remain that way for many more years.

After apparently at least 13 years, this article has no map, no schematic, no illustration of where in England this world-famous structure is; its location on the line between Manchester and Liverpool; its relationship to local topography. I want to know, for example: Is it east or west of the junction of the line coming up from Birmingham? To answer that question, once again I am kicked back out into the cold and must find some other resource.

Jimlue (talk) 05:48, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Jim, there are OS grid references at the very top of the article that you can click on and take you to the map you seek. I have attempted previously to link directly to the OS map through the infobox but it hasn't been cooperating. Koncorde (talk) 05:57, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

George Stephenson did not design the Viaduct
George Stephenson was a mechanical engineer, not a civils one, He could do a basic survey of levels, but he did not possess the skills and education for a structure of this magnitude. In a paper "Innovative or derivative? The design of the bridge structures on the world’s first intercity railway between Liverpool and Manchester" By Mike Chrimes of the ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works, 2018. He finds that while George Stephenson did make rough sketches, his young team, including Thomas Longridge Gooch and Joseph Locke would translate those sketches into full drawings in the evening, but the Directors of the Railway were not convinced and brought in Jesse Hartly (of Liverpool's Docks fame) and he revised the plans, as he did with many of the bridges along the line, as some of Harley's and his father's techniques are present in many of the bridges including the Rainhill Skew Bridge. Mike Chrimes concludes that the design of the bridges should be credited to all those involved, but surely without the expertise of Hartley, we would not still be enjoying them today? — Preceding unsigned comment added by LMRT (talk • contribs) 14:58, 25 January 2022 (UTC)