Talk:Williamsburg Bridge

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Gallery and info box column on right are overlapping. Could someone who knows how please fix this? 65.96.180.86 06:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I inserted a div tag with a style="clear:right" just before the gallery tag. Overlap should be gone now. --Dschwen 07:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Meanwhile (or before) I added template invocation {{clear}} added to try to fix it. There may be a better way but that was a fast fix. That often works as a fast fix, but it sometimes leaves icky gaps in the article on the page. Hope that helps ++Lar: t/c 07:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
(clear does just about the same thing... probably don't need both, someone smarter than me should decide which to keep) ++Lar: t/c 07:41, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Removed my div, kept your {{clear}}. It is more wiki-style (thanks by the way, I didn't know it) and the position was better (gap before the heading not after). --Dschwen 07:46, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LIRR

The article says the Long Island Railroad used the bridge. However, the Williamsburgh Branch was truncated in 1876 at Bushwick, and only runs from there to Fresh Pond where it joins the Montauk Branch. So, how did LIRR trains run on a bridge that opened in 1902? Jim.henderson 04:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

These were actually Brooklyn Rapid Transit trains that used the BMT Jamaica Line to the Chestnut Street Incline and then the LIRR Atlantic Branch to Jamaica or the Rockaway Beach Branch to the Rockaways. --NE2 15:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)