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7 hours ago, Heartland said:
Other countries and other languages have sometimes interesting spelling. There is a mountain in Germany with a cable car connection
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A couple of weeks ago spotted a CRT workboat full of bins, the staff stated that they were removing all the bins on the Eastern end of the Regents Canal!
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Excellent videos
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On 01/10/2023 at 14:33, IanD said:
Whatpub and beerintheevening are better if you're a beer drinker (like you and me), but so often out of date. A lot of Google reviews do focus on the food (or coldness of the lager...) but there are usually useful comments about the beer too.
didn’t realise that Beer In The Evdning was still going. It was an excellent site in its time but seemed to die a death about 10 years ago -
On 04/10/2023 at 15:29, nb Innisfree said:
I fitted an hour counter to record when prop was turning, two reasons,
1: to be honest,
2: to give a reasonable record of hours spent. cruising.
As liveaboard ccers we recorded an average of 20% cruising and 80%, domestic, we once went from Skipton to Devizes in a few days (approx 8 hrs daily) the split was exactly 60/40!
if you did Skipton to Devizes ‘in a few days’ you would have had to be using rocket fuel, not diesel!-
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One of my school friends neighbours was called Gordon Bennett!
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37 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Oh yes so it did.
I first arrived on Limehouse cut in 2010 (still here) and now you mention it there was a BW short workboat there as an elsan point. It was moored near the office.
The short boat was Aynho
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Loughborough for the Great Central Railway.
Leighton. Buzzard for their narrow gauge railway
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5 hours ago, magpie patrick said:
Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, previously run by the Company of Proprietors of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, whom I believe went into liquidation (no pun intended)
They did not go bust, they went into administration but bought out of it when the IWA took over the management of the navigation. The Company of Proprietors still ‘own’ the canal but have nothing to do with the running of it.
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21 hours ago, David Mack said:
Argus has been moored on the Aylesbury Arm around Wilstone the last couple of times I have been through.
It's being sold by Commercial Boat Services, which suggests CRT have taken possession of it, perhaps for non payment of licence or other breach of the Ts and Cs.
Thet were/are? moored around Aylesbury for a long time
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On 13/09/2023 at 20:48, David Mack said:
Back in the mid 1970's I had a holiday job driving for a fixings company who supplied small batches of electroplated bolts and screws etc. I used to deliver the raw fixings to a small factory where Austin Court is where the plating process was carried out in what looked like chip fryers full of various nefarious liquids. The place had a horrible fug about it and I was always glad to leave there.
10 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:GU and Paddington arm around Hayes (jam factory)?
That would be a very long train!
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Had a lift out and welding carried out at P & S at Cassiobury a few years ago and couldn’t fault the service. Used them again last year on a charity trip boat I am involved in and had the same excellent service
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On 21/01/2021 at 20:21, JamesWoolcock said:
There are many folks prepared to carry out a survey, but do check that who ever is asking for the survey, will accept the surveyor you have in mind.
Your mate with a thickness tester will look round your boat for you once it's out of the water, but they may not be accepted by the insurer!!
Unlike most in the business, he's a boater.
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18 hours ago, magnetman said:
The CRT own the Canary wharf docks (poplar, blackwall, west india dock and west india quay) and yes you do need BSS insurance and CRT licence/registration to be there.
And Milwall dock of course.
There’s a seized Russian superyacht in there at the moment, not sure if it has a BSC 😂
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1 hour ago, Rob-M said:
There is a good YouTube video of them running trains round the yard.
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On 28/07/2023 at 09:09, Tim Lewis said:
Looks like the Youtube channel has been taken down!
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