gantry

Hundreds of metres of berths sat empty and towering gantry cranes stood idle as a skeleton crew conducted maintenance.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Among the items destined for the scrap heap is the gantry, which once sheltered Soyuz rockets from the tropical weather.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

A submarine telephone cable hauler and gantry in Greenwich lauded as "a birthplace of the communication age" has been named one of the remarkable listed sites of 2025.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

In partnership with architects like Benjamin Albertson and Rad Studio, the robotic gantry system can produce more free-form designs than traditional construction, with tight curves, circles and other elements.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

But if I reversed the process, and closed my left eye, all I could see was machinery—a huge pile of it, rocket and gantry and cables and pipes all jumbled together in confusion.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

Roger Hallam and 15 other protesters were jailed last year for their roles in four demonstrations held by JSO, including climbing on gantries over the M25 and throwing soup over Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers painting.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025

The protests saw about 45 protesters climb onto gantries over the motorway for four successive days, at times bringing the motorway to a standstill.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024

The outage also made it impossible to change the signals in overhead gantries to close lanes with a red 'X' sign where a hazard had been detected.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2023

Over the last four days, its activists have climbed gantries above the highway, forcing it to close in several places.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

Ladders, gantries, beams, and walkways crossed the gloom above, with small figures moving about them purposefully.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman