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Francis Herne

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  • Birthday 24/08/1996

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    CC: BCN 12/23
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    Railways, church bells, electronics and Linux systems. Anything historical, mechanical, electrical. Dogs are good too.
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    Software developer
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    Lark Ascending
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  1. Farm supply shop. I go to TFM, they stock all kinds of useful stuff and their Penkridge and Bromsgrove shops are fairly handy for the canal. There'll be some other one closer to Gloucester. Or the Internet of course.
  2. Stourport is on red now (for some odd reason, listed under S&W Canal separately from the other Severn locks).
  3. Is that enough bickering now? The Anchor at High Offley is indisputably nice: I rather like the deep cuttings, although the current slew of fallen trees and small landslips poised over the canal is a bit worrying.
  4. It's not totally unheard of: on a couple of short BCN locks with single bottom gates, a 71'6" GU motor needs to be wedged in (slightly) diagonally to clear the gate. Of course those are relatively wide for narrow locks where as Marsden notoriously aren't!
  5. Depends on your definition of "pass through", I suppose. If your boat doesn't fit off the far end you can't pass through on a journey to somewhere else, only visit the canal for its own sake. It seems silly but so many people on Facebook are apparently unable to read a map without being spoon-fed, I'm sure they're seeing long boats turn up at Marsden on their way to Leeds or wherever.
  6. Yes, beside the roadway of the high-level swing bridge near the pivot. I presume the signal-style levers are to lock the span in position.
  7. We're still at Sharpness! 😉 The loco is from Castle Meads Power Station at Gloucester, and was in the waterways museum there for a while before being given to the Vale of Berkeley Railway group. https://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=4224 (for the levers I was fishing for a more precise answer, not sure if that's unfair)
  8. There are some other interesting things to see around there too. For bonus points, where are these (canal-related) levers?
  9. Barnhurst outflow onto the S&W and SU is supposed to be treated. The 2022 data, latest available, says only a few hours of untreated storm overflow over the year but having seen it I'm pretty skeptical. I don't think the normal treatment process can remove all the detergent anyway.
  10. Nope, still very much in evidence at Wheaton Aston last year. With the recent heavy rain, the colour and smell at the moment are quite interesting... CRT had to lower the level at Rotton Park quite a bit in January (IIRC) due to a problem with the spillway. I'm surprised that doesn't show up in the BCN numbers.
  11. 7 amps at, say, 14V is about 100W. That seems reasonable to me for a 150W panel in direct sunlight. There's a significant temperature coefficient for solar panels, so I actually see higher peak outputs early in the year than mid-summer, although my often-angled panels will benefit less from the sun being high in the sky than your flat one. Solar panels get very hot in direct summer sun - up to 75°C or so, losing about 1% of output for every 3° of temperature per the datasheet for mine. That's more than enough to outweigh the more favourable angle. Of course total output is still much higher in the summer thanks to longer days and generally better weather.
  12. Table of lock phone numbers is available here -- the landline numbers match those I've used, but I haven't tried the mobiles. https://www.saulboatclub.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Contact-Numbers-Table-2024-new.pdf Calling them a few minutes in advance isn't necessary (except Gloucester, not applicable to this thread) but can save a bit of hanging about. Yellow boards on the Severn weren't that bad in my limited experience - keep an eye out for floating or wedged debris, moor facing upstream and allow a lot of sideways drift when turning.
  13. Does anyone have photos of the outboard-driven River Class prototypes, Anne or Lee? Would be another candidate for this thread but I can't find one.
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