http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Edinburgh railway bridge turned into garage up for sale" en Thu, 21 May 2026 22:02:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227194 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:05:37 +0000 kaputnik 227194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=biking%2C+cycling&amp;year_start=1840&amp;year_end=2008&amp;corpus=6&amp;smoothing=3&amp;share=&amp;direct_url=t1%3B%2Cbiking%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccycling%3B%2Cc0">This</a> ngram makes me think there's hope yet for the world; </p> <p>(with apologies in advance to our readers in American English) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227193 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:00:08 +0000 PS 227193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Back OT to Bike/Bicycle: some of the usage of "bike" may be explained by the (apparent) increasing tendency to call motorbikes "bikes"? Causes me much irritation when the pedalcycling article I navigate to turns out to be about motorcycles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227189 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:47:19 +0000 kaputnik 227189@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a couple of pictures of Barnton Station in the olden days here;</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_edin_t/1_edinburgh_transport_railways_rce105a_barnton.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_edin_t/1_edinburgh_transport_railways_rce105a_barnton.htm</a></p> <p>Directly underneath where the Sainsbury's and Post Office are today. The station and sidings occupied all the wedge of land between here and the overbridge* for sale.</p> <p>*an overbridge carries something over the railway. An underbridge allows something to pass underneath the railway. Which is why you sometimes get confused passengers at railway station when the announcer tells them to take the overbridge, or worse the "underbridge" when they actually mean the subway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227103 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:55:50 +0000 gembo 227103@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Slightly related I was at the superhero show in the free sisters venue today with no.1 son (also only son) and the comperes asked us to estimate who was richer TOny Starck or Bruce Wayne in the Forbes 500 Fictional character Rich List. </p> <p>Quite funny list. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227077 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:54:50 +0000 wangi 227077@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bicycle%2Cbike%2Cvelocipede&amp;year_start=1840&amp;year_end=2008&amp;corpus=6&amp;smoothing=3&amp;">1870s velocipede</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227076 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:54:50 +0000 wingpig 227076@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Wilmington Pity it doesn't distinguish between the usage. An article someone linked to once from here was someone moaning about "bike" as a verb for some reason. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227074 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:49:50 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 227074@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I ended up on an even more weird route... The distinction between 'aeroplane' and 'airplane' popped into my head, from where I found an article (essentially the former is non-North American, the latter is North American), that linked to a Google 'ngram', something I'd never seen before, which showed how usage had changed in the UK, and then I thought I'd see how the use of 'bicycle' versus 'bike' had changed, and it gave me <a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bicycle%2Cbike&amp;year_start=1900&amp;year_end=2008&amp;corpus=6&amp;smoothing=3&amp;share=&amp;direct_url=t1%3B%2Cbicycle%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cbike%3B%2Cc0">this graph</a>.</p> <p>Thread drift much? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227072 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:29:19 +0000 acsimpson 227072@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo. For some instance I now have an image of you campaigning at the gates of Faslane demanding they rebrand trident on the basis that their vessels are merely marines and not submarines. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227067 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:15:27 +0000 wangi 227067@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>kaputnik, yeah noticed that while looking up old OS maps</p> <p><a href="http://maps.nls.uk/view/82877325#zoom=3&amp;lat=4600&amp;lon=6080" rel="nofollow">http://maps.nls.uk/view/82877325#zoom=3&amp;lat=4600&amp;lon=6080</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227051 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:27:28 +0000 gembo 227051@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To add to confusion the photo has a caption saying under a tunnel rather than in a tunnel under a bridge.</p> <p>See also the song Under The Sea which is actually about being in the sea, beneath the surface. Under the sea would be about life in the sea bed or down towards the mantle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227036 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:17:34 +0000 kaputnik 227036@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The bridge is interesting as it never carried a road across the top. It is one of three built to connect the parkland of the Barnton House estate when it was cut in 2 by the railway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227028 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:31:17 +0000 chdot 227028@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Except that this one is in the space where the trains used to run. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227026 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:29:14 +0000 wangi 227026@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>But of course railway arches are used as garages all over the place. A pretty low uniqueness threshold! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16725#post-227021 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:03:01 +0000 chdot 227021@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-railway-bridge-turned-into-garage-up-for-sale-1-4198980" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-railway-bridge-turned-into-garage-up-for-sale-1-4198980</a> </p>