Victor Vectis

Wot? One of those Go Go things for hire at Gas Street? 😃

Yeahbut....... It would never get through the Froghall Tunnel. 😃

Might one ask why? That's one fat fugugly dream, sorry, nightmare. And £500 for transferring the mooring? Money for doing sweet FA.

I wonder if CaRT would count this as 'vandalism'? 😃

Yes.

FWIW We though that whole business was dodgy from the off. Yeahbut..... Did any of that cash get into the pockets of the real heroines/heroes of the covid crisis? I mean the staff on the wards who had to work in full PPE while caring for their patients.

Taking the boat into Bancroft Basin is good fun. (Extra points for Japanese tourists taking photos of each other standing on your boat) but there are 16 locks down from Wilmcote and the same 16 back up again. But.....if pushed for time (or tired?) Wilmcote Station is right by the moorings there for a fast train down to Stratford and back.

If the RCR chappies found a black ally windlass in the bottom of the lock while they were paddling about down there, its mine. Can I have it back please?

558 Dinorwic of Penrhyn? Certainly not the Ffestiniog. The design of the slate wagons should clinch it. And thats a lovely looking Ruston at the head of the train. Did Penrhyn ever use Rustons on their line down to the quay?

I don't think so. I reckon they are of the Corkickle Brake at Whitehaven. http://www.cumbria-railways.co.uk/corkickle_brake_whitehaven.html It was used by Marchon to connect their chemical works with the main line. I visited Haig Pit, next door (sort of), to Marchon on the cliff above Whitehaven back in the 1970s. The incline on the NCB railway had been put out of use by a landslip. I don't know if Marchon used coal but it could be that the pics show 21T hoppers on the brake being used to get Haig coal onto BR. ETA Or down to the harbour in a roundabout way as the NCB incline was OOU.

Currently moored at Alvechurch. Its stopped raining but the level went up overnight, not by much but enough for me to realise the ropes were tight and the boat was listing a bit.

Chucking it down here in Alvechurch. Glad we scrubbed the idea of going upriver on the Severn.

Yeahbut.... Nice pic of that Barry Hawkins boat.

Same here. I think it's an age thing. (I'm so old I can remember coal mines in Yorkshire)

Oooer, matron. That's a very personal question. 😃

Yes. Just read the notice. Good news. I'd didn't fancy going into Brum via Camp Hill.

Yes. I'm planning to go up the flight sometime next week and was wondering the same.

Thats my take on the place too.

I'm glad there were people about the last time I went in. I could stand on the bottom but I doubt I would have been able to get out without their help.