Talk:Tees Transporter Bridge

message: I’m doing all about the transporter bridge. This is because it is local and that I see it everyday on the way to and from school. I would also like to find out more so the next few paragraphs should help me. I have also chosen it because not only is it local but the fact that I have never seen it up close and so I do wish sometime I will see it and this will help me respect it even more. The bridge is blue and is made from steel. It can carry up to a maximum of 600 people at a time. You drive or walk into a cradle that is suspended beneath the main span of the bridge and which carries its load of cars and people across the Tees and lifts them a massive 160ft above the river in just two and a half minutes. It even featured in the film Billy Elliott. The Transporter Bridge is the best known landmark in Teesside. Its famous shape is seen for miles around Middlesbrough. But don’t expect to drive across the bridge though - you are carried across the water in a cradle suspended beneath the main space of the bridge. It is the largest working bridge of its kind in the world —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.104.69.127 (talk • contribs) 19:24, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled 1

message: Y23 (talk) 11:02, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 60 pence for pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists, all other vehicles a pound twenty. Kar98 (talk) 13:26, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  how much costs a trip 

message: Today's edit states the following:
:: It was until recently the only working example of its type in England, but there are two other bridges, the Newport Transporter Bridge in Newport, South Wales which re-opened on 20 July 2010, and the Warrington Transporter Bridge in Cheshire, England.
Can't we dismiss the Newport Transporter because it's in Wales?
The Warrington Transporter looks like a toy - surely that can be written out.
Perhaps include mention of other transporter bridges further down the page. :) --Francis Hannaway  Francis Hannaway 14:25, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I quite agree. The bridge is currently the only working transporter bridge in England. Reference to the only other working transporter bridge in the UK can be found in the 'See also' section. I adjusted the text accordingly. Encyo (talk) 22:19, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  How long has Newport, South Wales been in England? 

message: The article states that the bridge was built by Sir William Arroll and Co of Glasgow, but the box states that the design was by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company. There is no link I know of between the two at that time (1910/11). The item on Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Compoany states that they built it. I don't have the references to resolve the contradiction.Ancienterracht (talk) 17:08, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I understand - Sir William Arroll and Co. were the design engineers and the work was managed locally by Cleveland Bridge, with steel produced by Dorman Long ... everyone played their part. Francis Hannaway (talk) 08:11, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who built the bridge? 

message: Substituted at 18:38, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Hi 
Thanks for your comments on the image that we uploaded as part of our  Remaking Middlesbrough event at Teesside University today.
We chose to upload this image from a new editor (a graphic design student here at Teesside) because we felt it added to the page by providing a context for the bridge - in that it can be seen within the landscape in a way that local people might often see it. It's also very recent, taken last week (April 2018). 
 
We are trying to encourage local people to get involved in contributing to Wikipedia and we felt this was a good quality image, distinctive enough from the other images on the page, offering a different take on the bridge. --Svnicholls (talk) 15:22, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you  for your helpful response. It's useful to know the context a bit more. Let's give it a go and see how it does: I've restored it. Cheers DBaK (talk) 08:13, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

text: You're very welcome - I hope it all works out well. Cheers DBaK (talk) 06:53, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transporter bridge pics 

message: I seem to remember that Terry Scott drove off the Newport Bridge,  not the Transporter 2A02:C7C:C09D:9400:C553:B9C1:31F8:3DC3 (talk) 19:14, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, it was the Transporter Bridge (unless he did it twice, once on each bridge!). There is a picture of him next to the bridge, looking suitably disgruntled, in "The Majestic Dinosaur". -- Verbarson  talkedits 11:07, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terry Scott