Wiki:Project Bridges and Tunnels

The Bridges and Tunnels is a task to create and maintain to a fairly high standard articles for all the notable bridges and tunnels in the UK and Ireland.

Tasks

There are many many bridges and tunnels out there with a long and interesting history, yet we only have articles for a relatively small number of them. The aim of this project is to improve our coverage!

Create new articles

If you are looking for inspiration on an article to start, there is a list of bridges at the bottom of this page, where we already have pictures but no article.

Improve existing articles

Many existing bridge and tunnel articles are stubs (rated 1 star) and need improvement. In many cases a quick google search will bring up lots of information on that bridge. Picture descriptions on Geograph can also contain invaluable information.

Categorisation

We need suggestions on how to better categorise the articles on Bridges and Tunnels, currently they are all lumped into a single Bridge or Tunnel category, which is becoming quite large. We categorise many other things by region, but even this may become overwhelmed over time for bridges.

Who's involved?

To add your name to this list, edit this page and add " * ~~~ " to the bottom of the list, this will be automatically substituted with your username.

• Rob (Doing what I can, Scotland largely complete)
• Ravenbluemoon Will expand the Humber area and Trent where I can.

Article template

Below is some code to copy and paste into a new article to get you started. Remember to add a category to the Navbox, such as "Crossings of the River Usk". If the article is about a tunnel, remember to change the Bridges category to Tunnels.

{{Crossing
 | type          = 
 | name          = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
 | image         = 
 | caption       = 
 | number        = 
 | toll          = 
 | built         = 
 | location      = 
 | lat           = 
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 | rel1          =
}}

{{Video List}}   <!-- List of videos (if applicable) -->

{{Navbox|cat=}}

{{Rating|1}}     <!-- Article Rating, 1-5 stars. See [[Wiki:Article Rating]] for more details -->

<!--Categories: -->
[[Category:Bridges]]

Articles waiting to be created

The below articles have galleries, but no corresponding page.

1. Castleford Bridge | Gallery:Castleford Bridge
2. Hempsted Bridge | Gallery:Hempsted Bridge
3. High Orchard Bridge | Gallery:High Orchard Bridge
4. Maisemore Bridge | Gallery:Maisemore Bridge
5. Queenhill Bridge | Gallery:Queenhill Bridge
6. Bray Bridge | Gallery:Bray Bridge

The following bridges are on Rivers with Templates, but don't have pages:

Thames

1. Elizabeth Bridge - A332

Forth

1. M9 Bridge
2. A91 Bridge

Itchen

1. Wharf Bridge
2. Tun Bridge
3. St Cross Bridge
4. Norris's Bridge
5. B3037 Bridge
6. Itchen Ferry

Discussion

Please start any new discussions on this project below

River Descriptions

I don't know if it'll be a little out of the SABRE remit, but I think it'd be nice to have a little description of each river in the listings - not much, just where it goes, what towns it passes through, tributaries, a few stats about the river. Some of the rivers could be a bit unfamiliar to some people perhaps? You could have a page for each, with the bridges listing at the bottom of each page. It would introduce each river quite well and make things look a bit more complete. Any thoughts on this? Ravenbluemoon 12:57, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

As I have finished the images of most roads I have started doing a progressive set of Bridges starting at Lands End. As this involves the input of rivers new to Sabre I have thought that a description of the actual plus the bridge would be helpful.bob 13:43, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

OK, at some point I'm going to trial something for the Trent - I think it will become useful as I've just been taking photos for some bridges over the Idle, Maun and Meden (tributaries of the Trent)- I don't think they're terribly familiar to some! Ravenbluemoon 18:49, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Here's an idea, that took me 20 minutes to knock up. Do we want stripmaps of the rivers like this? I know that the font is wrong, that it's not very well spaced etc, etc, but is it worth trying to do something like this for each river. Obviously, some like the Thames and Clyde will need two or three strips for the whole river. I picked the Spey because I didn't think it had that many bridges! Rileyrob 10:22, 15 May 2010 (UTC) (Image has been deleted Rileyrob (talk) 17:07, 30 April 2018 (BST))

I like the idea, perhaps rather than creating unique strip maps for every road, we can just create a selection of bridge images which we can knock together in a table to form a strip map, as well as linking to the articles and showing some basic information. I'm busy for a few days now (work, birthday, hangover, work), so unless you beat me to it (which you probably will :)) I'll take a look when I get a calm moment.

Are we going to go for pages on individual rivers, e.g. River Severn etc to contain this information? Jeni ^(talk) 11:40, 15 May 2010 (UTC)