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Thank you - I will have a check in the morning and go from there I guess! Cheers once again

Ah brilliant, no idea why I couldn't find that in Google although in my experience Google seems to struggle with the newer CRT site. Thanks very much anyway - it's really appreciated!!

OK thanks for that. Is it just in the ordinary stoppages check on the CRT site? Cheers

Thank you for this Might be interesting then, I have heard all sorts of stories about Derwent Mouth and looking at it this afternoon the currents were very peculiar. Thanks for the advice RE navigation at Sawley! I wasn't aware one could check this? Do I need to ring them or is it an online jobby?

I hope this is the right place for this. Currently moored at Shardlow looking to head up the Erewash tomorrow so need to have a quick cruise down the Trent - I had a wander down to the river earlier and it was exactly on the line between yellow and red. Further wanderings down to Derwent mouth did not reveal anything too terrifying but I am just wondering if anyone can give me any info on the state of things further down. Wondering if I can get into Sawley OK as I remember there are flood gates. Any help would be appreciated :)

Thanks very much - I will see what I can do with these Reg - thanks also to you for the links

Ahh cheers for this! Thanks

Thanks for the quick replies - I will post in that bit and see what I can find on FB Thanks

Hello, I hope this is in the right place and is allowed, I am currently working on a project and part of this is recreating Dutton railway viaduct for a simulation product. Sadly I cannot seem to find any good photos of the brickwork. Would anyone in that area be able / willing to get me some good pics of the brickwork? They would need to be reasonably close and square on. I appreciate that getting the arch work at the top is probably less possible but I am not as bothered about that. If anyone can help I would be very grateful, Thanks

We have not had any rain all day but all the rivers and streams look full. We have decided to go and explore the Ashby. I assume Foxton is packed as always on a nice bank holiday !

Err, hopefully the water is supposed to go over there. I don't think the canals need another breach. Had enough trouble with the Middlewich one! When we went down I was thinking the flows were more like when we came back from Naburn in the autumn. We passed one boat heading downstream as we went back up. There were two CRT staff walking down to the lock as we came out of it. Chatting to them one of them said they had never seen it this high! They have not closed it yet but it's only an inch or so from the red.

Oh crikey! I remember when the lock in Tewkesbury looked like that. I'ts a shame we cant do that route but never mind. Might give us a chance to explore the Ashby canal a little. Thanks for all the help and advice. Glad we are not trapped somewhere.

haha OK. Right were about to go back onto river - I'll post some pics. EDIT - He is going to just get to Lichfield. It's a short walk from the station to the canal. Should be there for 10.30 ish so he will have a bit of a wait.

Yup, plan now is to turn. Had to go through it as there isn't a winding hole. Should be back at Arlewas in half an hour. Just turned. Need to pick our man up at somewhere with a station as they're coming from Rugby on the train

Yes, there is a risk of that. How likely do you think that is between now and this evening?

OK, thanks for this - We are currently at Arelwas and the river is in the yellow. If we are going to turn back and head the other way this would be a good place to decide that. EDIT: Have to pick somebody up at Burton so will turn there and then go canal route. Will keep an eye on this throughout the day in case anything changes but with all the rain forecast I think that's unlikely.

Great - thanks very much. Really appreciate the help! Canal Plan reckons we would probably be at Shardlow for Sunday afternoon if that helps.

Hello, I hope this is the right place to post this, This weekend and next week I am moving a boat from Middlewich to Dunchurch Pools. The shortest and 'easiest' route is to go via the Coventry / Brum & Faze / North Oxford canals but we have a large crew and lots of time. At the time of writing we are currently at Aston Marina - 29/03 and are trying to decide on which route to take. We did the River Soar and Grand Union canal back in 2016 and thought it was a nice route so as we have the time we would prefer to go that way. I was just wondering if the river levels over the next week might make that a bad plan as there is some rain forecast. Mostly it looks like Monday has a few hours of 'heavy rain' and then 'light rain' all day but the weekend before, and the rest of the week after, looks OK. We have done a fair amount of cruising on other rivers and prefer them to the canals but as the boat needs to be there by Sat morning (07/04) so having to wait for levels to drop is going to be troublesome. Any advice on this from people that know more about that section would be really helpful. Thanks

Yeah thought this might be the case

Hmmm maybe - If the dam gets placed so that ALL the stranded boats get out (as opposed to those downstream of the last bridge) I reckon its something like 1.9 million gallons. That's about 8000 tones of water. The wider the dam the more pressure it needs to withstand. Someone will probably have a better idea of the pressure on the dam itself but I would think you would need to dump a fair amount of material in to hold that back

Shsss - The canal towpath is busy enough without everyone knowing this!.... A Portadam is on it's way to recover the boats. The canal repair will take much longer I should have thought

I thought that. There are not even any wide boats around the Big Lock as they can't get past the aqueduct

Just the one to my knowledge.

Yes, this is what I understood they were planning to do. It's a pretty wide pound above Kings Lock so shouldn't need to drop water down from too much further up.