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On the Warwickshire Railways website, mishaps section, is this early view of a shunt of coal wagons that ran away and piled up in a heap, in and around the canal, blocking it to navigation. http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/misc/lnwrb23.htm The Warwickshire Railways website http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/

http://www.nrm.org.uk/PlanaVisit/VisitYork/howtogethere.aspx The direct walking route signed from the footbridge is more direct.(not suitable for wheelchairs) than leaving the station by main exit and walking round the streets.

Noticed this on Rugby Boats website Humber keel built to the dimensions of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation http://rugbyboats.co.uk/barges.php name : NIDD 61ft 6in x 14ft 6in Humber Keel. c.1937. Built by Henry Scarr at Hessle, on the Humber Estuary, this is a classic Humber keel built to the dimensions of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation.

Went to it for the Broads boats, it has that and everything you desribe too, high days of the fishing fleet too!

I have no connection with this channel except in successfully finding what I was looking for from the channel, saw all these canal films listed, just passing it on, can't believe how much period material there is, covering many, many subjects. They sell MP4 downloads. The youtube channel is A60stock There go the boats, Barging Along, President's Fly Run, Brentford 150, Broad Waterways, Gentle Highway, enjoyed the 1930's film "East anglia" showed the Broads boating scenes.

A stunning photograph of Brunel's "Great Eastern", taken in 1857, one of several. I often look out on the internet for interesting old photographs, to me this is especially so, not just for the quality of the image itself, with so much history and struggle wrapped up in the concept,construction, launch and career of this ship, at the end of which came the great Atlantic telegraph : history on the wing, seen here at Millwall 1857. The photographs, for there are several, keep clicking on "older" to find them, plus others later in the ship's life. The history, and catalogue of events relating to the ship. http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Cableships/GreatEastern/index.htm It's not a canal image, or story, so maybe it should be in the VP, bless the internet for making these available.

Staying on topic, the mastrou proposed name is withdrawn on grounds of received translation likely being wrong, apparently). (If it is a diminutive of Lamastre that won't do at all for a canal boat name. Colloquial and multi dialect French is a total mystery to me, Ch'ti it was in Lille where I worked for a few years....boss was from Marseille, got 1 word in 3 on a good day) Off Topic : Perhaps a Vivarais thread in the virtual pub? I look forward to the eventual day when a diminutive of Le Cheylard is how that railway is named - further, farther and up a big hill to boot!

A very pleasant name, (and also a steam loco if that matters), but a pleasant name for a boat on canals and rivers : Watersmeet. On the earlier-mentioned Vivarais railway theme, if a smaller boat, then : Mastrou. Means little mouse, as the Vivarais is a narrow gauge railway. 2 nice names IMO, I hope they are original in canal context, with a railway context if wanted, but not obviously so.

While reading about the former railway works and loco sheds at Gorton, Manchester, was interested to read that a canal branch and its boat depot and dry dock co-existed in the midst of the expanded loco works and loco shed area, until canal branch, loco works closed 1962. As there are what appear to be locally supplied photos of the canal installations, posting them here for your interest, lest you not find them in what is a railway-focused website. Link to Stockport canal website added for context. Stockport canal website; canal depot; canal depot pictures ; map relating canal to railway works http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nb.jemsabi/index.html http://www.gorton-tank.com/TheCanalDepot.html http://www.gorton-tank.com/CanalDepotPictorial.html http://www.gorton-tank.com/DevelopmentPictures.html