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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)
How much does the bridge weigh?
Y23 ( talk) 11:02, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
As very young kids, living in Grangetown, we often went to Seaton Carew by bus - at the time, it was three buses, plus a trip across the Transporter - not sure how much the buses were - we were still using old money back then - but I think the fare on the actual Transporter was 1d (one old penny) for pedestrians - I think it might have been a tanner (6d - six old pence) for a car.
One bus from Grangetown to Middlesbrough - for decades, we were spoilt for choice - almost any bus went to Middlesbrough - might have said Stockton, Darlington or somewhere beyond - but it did go via Middlesbrough - then a Corporation bus down to The Transporter - a bit of a walk, otherwise, and, with nanna, it took us ages to get anywhere - across the Transporter to Port Clarence, then a maroon-and-yellow Hartlepool Corporation bus to Seaton Carew - then the same in reverse order back home - when we later went decimal, it became 1p.
From some time in the early 70s, after we went decimal, on the first Tuesday in August, up until around 1980, we went there with an organisation of which my father was a member - they hired a fleet of Cleveland Transit (formerly Corporation) buses - it would have been very inconvenient to have them all crossing The Transporter, so they went across Newport Bridge.
Haven't crossed it much, recently.
Arthurvasey ( talk) 13:51, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Can we please discuss this properly rather than fiddle with it?I am sure it has all been in good faith but, as I write, we have the completely ridiculous situation that the article's name does not match that shown in bold in the article, and the article has the unfortunate qualifier "as it is correctly known" which I fear may read like a copout. I am entirely unconcerned as to which name it ends up with, but I do feel strongly that it must be done properly by consensus and that the article name and text must make sense and be consistent. Of course there's always room for explaining what alternative names there are for something, but please let's get it right. Thanks and best wishes DBaK ( talk) 22:22, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
/* pame */ I am a local who used to use The Transporter, many years ago, for day trips to Seaton. Some years ago, I took my children on to The Transporter just for the experience. I have never, ever heard anyone refer to The Transporter as the Tranny.
Today's edit states the following:
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)
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)
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Hi @ DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered:
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)
Thank you so much for your support @ DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered:. I know that the photographer will be delighted - it means a lot to her and is a first small step in engaging new editors in our region. -- 82.71.5.251 ( talk) 22:12, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
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)
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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)
How much does the bridge weigh?
Y23 ( talk) 11:02, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
As very young kids, living in Grangetown, we often went to Seaton Carew by bus - at the time, it was three buses, plus a trip across the Transporter - not sure how much the buses were - we were still using old money back then - but I think the fare on the actual Transporter was 1d (one old penny) for pedestrians - I think it might have been a tanner (6d - six old pence) for a car.
One bus from Grangetown to Middlesbrough - for decades, we were spoilt for choice - almost any bus went to Middlesbrough - might have said Stockton, Darlington or somewhere beyond - but it did go via Middlesbrough - then a Corporation bus down to The Transporter - a bit of a walk, otherwise, and, with nanna, it took us ages to get anywhere - across the Transporter to Port Clarence, then a maroon-and-yellow Hartlepool Corporation bus to Seaton Carew - then the same in reverse order back home - when we later went decimal, it became 1p.
From some time in the early 70s, after we went decimal, on the first Tuesday in August, up until around 1980, we went there with an organisation of which my father was a member - they hired a fleet of Cleveland Transit (formerly Corporation) buses - it would have been very inconvenient to have them all crossing The Transporter, so they went across Newport Bridge.
Haven't crossed it much, recently.
Arthurvasey ( talk) 13:51, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Can we please discuss this properly rather than fiddle with it?I am sure it has all been in good faith but, as I write, we have the completely ridiculous situation that the article's name does not match that shown in bold in the article, and the article has the unfortunate qualifier "as it is correctly known" which I fear may read like a copout. I am entirely unconcerned as to which name it ends up with, but I do feel strongly that it must be done properly by consensus and that the article name and text must make sense and be consistent. Of course there's always room for explaining what alternative names there are for something, but please let's get it right. Thanks and best wishes DBaK ( talk) 22:22, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
/* pame */ I am a local who used to use The Transporter, many years ago, for day trips to Seaton. Some years ago, I took my children on to The Transporter just for the experience. I have never, ever heard anyone refer to The Transporter as the Tranny.
Today's edit states the following:
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)
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)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Tees Transporter Bridge/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
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Substituted at 18:38, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi @ DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered:
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)
Thank you so much for your support @ DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered:. I know that the photographer will be delighted - it means a lot to her and is a first small step in engaging new editors in our region. -- 82.71.5.251 ( talk) 22:12, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
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)
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