Hi,
I suspect that no one with a building background would call these structures
stanchions. I would subscribe to pylons, towers or trestles, but in parts of
Shropshire you could have found trussels.
Mike Shaw
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Subject: [mining-history] Aerial Ropeways
> What word or term do people use for the uprights that support the
> rope/wire in an aerial ropeway? I personally prefer stanchion but the
> Ordnance Survey seem to use standard, and I have also seen trestle, tower.
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