Talk:Chappel Viaduct

A fact from Chappel Viaduct appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 March 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that newly minted coins placed inside a pier of Chappel Viaduct (pictured) went missing within hours, and a bricklayer who proffered a new half-sovereign in a pub was suspected?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chappel Viaduct.

Wikipedia

Bridges and Tunnels Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of bridges and tunnels on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Bridges and TunnelsWikipedia:WikiProject Bridges and TunnelsTemplate:WikiProject Bridges and TunnelsBridge and Tunnel articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

East Anglia Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject East Anglia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of East Anglia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.East AngliaWikipedia:WikiProject East AngliaTemplate:WikiProject East AngliaEast Anglia articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Trains: in UK Low‑importance

Trains Portal

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Trains, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to rail transport on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. See also: WikiProject Trains to do list and the Trains Portal.TrainsWikipedia:WikiProject TrainsTemplate:WikiProject Trainsrail transport articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Associated projects or task forces:
/
	This article is supported by WikiProject UK Railways (assessed as Mid-importance).

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on Chappel Viaduct. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20160118040307/http://chappel.org/cpc_62.shtml to http://www.chappel.org/cpc_62.shtml

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 22:03, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious claims

I've removed two claims from the opening paragraph. The viaduct isn't in East Anglia by either the modern (NUTS 2) or historic (Kingdom of East Anglia) definition of the area. Secondly, the Stockport Viaduct is recognised by English Heritage as the largest brick built structure in Europe - http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=76880. Regards, Dalliance (talk) 13:37, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be some disagreement here. Both of those claims appear (with sources) toward the end of the article. To be sure, things like "largest structure" depend a lot on definitions; just what is East Anglia, too. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 14:13, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious

The claim is the viaduct is over 1000m long i.e. over 1 km. It clearly isn't that long on the map. There are 32 x 30ft arches = 960 ft i.e. 320 yards. Allowing for the pillars between the arches, that would make 1136 feet seem reasonable, not 1136 yards. Did someone confuse feet and yards? Op47 (talk) 22:50, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]