Talk:Water gap

Cumberland Gap Removed

The Cumberland Gap of the US states of Tenessee, Kentucky and Virginia has been removed. It is not a water gap, but rather a topographic saddle in the Cumberland Mountain ridge. Such saddles and passes in the central and southern Appalacians are also locally called "gaps". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.115.12.254 (talk) 16:18, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Railways/Railroads

Is it really necessary to include the "(non-US: railways)" bit? I don't care whether you call it railroads or railways, but to go out of the way to include both terms strikes me as unnecessary and completely irrelevant to the article, and to include BOTH terms for any word which has a slight variation in American English and British English would probably make every Wikipedia article about 50% longer...strikes me as a bad habit to start. Hamiltondaniel (talk) 08:55, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Mountain pass

It might be useful if the lead of this article discussed how a Water Gap differs from a mountain pass. Otherwise I'm wondering if the articles should be merged? —Sladen (talk) 15:05, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

They are not the same: a pass is a saddle-shaped feature with no water in it (not at the top), while a water gap is a valley containing a watercourse. Can you think of a better way of explaining this in the lead para? Richard New Forest (talk) 20:52, 2 December 2008 (UTC)