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Athy

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  1. I've never been to the Pocklin gton Canal. Is it abandoned or under restoration?
  2. They have diesel, gas and water available, but no maintenance or workshop facilities on site as far as I'm aware. When we, who moor in the village, approached them a few years ago to fix a problem, they gave us the number of a local independent fellow who was so curmudgeonly on the phone that we went elsewhere. They may have formed an alliance with Tooley's since then, I don't know.
  3. I remember the city, wwhere I was brout up, as very hilly, soif some bits are under water, there will still be peaks to cling to. Meanwhile, here in the Fens, it's rained all night and all day, but the Old River Nene doesn't appear to have risen at all - well done, Middle Levels.
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  5. Yes, we called into the Bure Valleyterminus station en passant last year, Fifteen inch gauge or thereabouts, isn't it? By the time we got there, the steam loco had finished its duties for the day and gone back to the shed, so all there was to look at was a neat little diesel and some coaches. File under 'tourist attration'. I'd say. The actual station did 'feel'right despite the tiny tracks within.
  6. shackerstone station is right by the Ashby Canal. From memory, if you moor near the hackaduck you'll be very adjacent. I see that the trendy phrase 'heritage railway' has reached CWSF, which is a pity, perhaps even a pita. What's wrong with 'preserved railways', as they have been called for half a century and more? Compare and contrast 'craft beer' v. 'real ale'.
  7. Yes, I've heard that term too, but I'm a polite fellow- or at least I was six years ago when I made thjat post.
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  17. I think you know the answer to that question. What was a sensible thread had descended into mud-slinging, which was reported to us, and one of my colleagues decided to hide it pro tem.
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  21. Probably, yes. Much of the Fens is below sea lavel, hence the very high banks on some of the Fenland waterways (Downham market and Guyhirn for example, and much of the route from Outwell to March). I think it's something to do with peat shrinkage following drainage operations long ago, Somewhere in the Fens there's a marker post whose top was originally at ground level but which now rises abut nine feet above the ground.
  22. My thoughts too. We haven't really had a proper high-summer July, and the rainfall has probably been above average.
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