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6 hours ago, 1st ade said:
I'm intrigued (although I've seen the signs plenty of times before) at a "Heavy Motor Car, any axle exceeding five tons" - these days, the whole vehicle wheghing five tons is a different class.
A "Heavy Motor Car" isn't a car that is heavy, it is the different class that you mention. The current defininition is at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/185 . The 1896 & 1903 acts don't seem to be online, but there is a PDF of the 1930 act which repealed them at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1930/43/pdfs/ukpga_19300043_en.pdf Which has a similar definition but in imperial units. I suspect that the 1930 act would have carried over the existing definition from the earlier acts.
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Is that photograph a crop of https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/bw192.2.113.3 ?
Other images of gu widening at https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/bw192.2.113
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See 11.2 of the latest licence T&Cs https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/refresh/media/original/43839-general-terms-and-conditions-for-boat-licenses-june-2021.pdf
This has changed slightly from the clause in the old version https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/5962.pdf page 24
This is not something that CRT have slipped in, see the 2008 version https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/3054.pdf page 23
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1 hour ago, Mike Todd said:
My continuing concern is that it seems a clear intention, in time, to monetise the IPR. Whilst it seems great at the moment, cos it is free, how much would you be prepared to pay to access it in the future?
See https://what3words.medium.com/how-does-what3words-make-money-f7ddfa791ab4 for how they make their money.
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55 minutes ago, Iain_S said:
The circle.goal(s).leader positions are pretty unusual in that both positions are possible locations
In that case, the context of the emergency would sort out any confusion, a sinking boat would be in the water, a person trapped between two skips wouldn't.
Of course if the two possible locations were similar, e.g. A bit of open moorland, an easy way to get the correct location would be for the call handler to ask for the address of the next square over. "Tags.nail.sooner" doesn't have a similar address nearby.
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24 minutes ago, canalboat said:
After years of wondering if the Elsan disposal point at Boughton Rd, Brownsover on the North Oxford was ever to open again,
It took a while to fix the problem, but "years" is a huge exaggeration, it reopened in January 2020
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/16199-boughton-elsan-brownsover
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8 minutes ago, David Mack said:
Have they announced who the other seven experts are?
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The MACE archive doesn't seem to have it online at the moment but I suspect that https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-18021965-dudley-canal-tunnel-song has the details of the original.
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Numbers visible on this photo https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4952820
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1 hour ago, Tim Lewis said:
Looks like CRT can’t lay brick paving very well!
That should have been "Looks like Network Rail can't lay brick paving very well"
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16 minutes ago, Loddon said:
About six weeks ago I got involved in a discussion about the earthing of Victron transformers, towards the end of the conversation there were some very good technical points made by a couple of contributers.
The thread does not appear in any searches even if I go back through all my and the other users posts.
Straight question to which I would like an answer.
Has it been hidden or deleted and if it has why?
This thread?
Which does appear in your past posts https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/profile/1118-loddon/content/page/11/&all_activity=1
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Thinking about it more, it would be possible to set the locks with the middle chamber empty, rather than at the level of the full bottom chamber, and that is probably the purpose of the line.
so best to ignore everything I have said in earlier posts.
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4 hours ago, magpie patrick said:
Thank you - I'm not sufficiently familiar with Grindley Brook to know why the line is there
I'm not too familiar with them either, have only done them twice, (it was close to being only once as I really didn't want to come back over Pontythingywotsit), but i remembered that the line was there.
Went looking for information, which led me to an old BW cruising guide from 1965 at https://www.plaskynastoncanalgroup.org/app/download/5783009099/Llangollen+Canal.pdf which has instuctions for the locks, but no mention of the line. So it would seem to be a modern thing rather than how the locks were originally built.
I wondered if it's due to a pound being lowered sometime after 1965. I doubt that the pound above the locks would have been just because of it's length. Just below the staircase is a "modern" bridge for the A41, which appears to have fairly low headroom, so I wondered if the pound below the staircase was lowered at that time , but the photo at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1392244 from 1965 seems to be a flat bridge, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5270604 being a more recent photo. Also the falls of the staircase and the three individual locks quoted in both the old BW guide and my more recent Nicholsons are the same.
So I'm confused as to whether it is due to one of the lower chambers being deeper, but if it is, I don't think it was by design but a "solution" to a problem that appeared sometime before I was there in about 2005.
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3 hours ago, magpie patrick said:
But are there/were there any staircases that had a lower chamber deeper than the top one?
Could the middle chamber of Grindley Brook be a candidate? When descending you need to have it partly filled to the line on the lock wall.
cant find a decent photo of the sign giving instructions, or a copy of the leaflet that was available when I did them some years back, but these are probably out there somewhere.
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13 hours ago, PD1964 said:
What should be a concern is CaRT’s Tweet, so now livaboards can move freely around
April 2020
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http://www.spanglefish.com/thecoldashbyrambler/coldashbysramblingexplorer.asp#ram5 has a photo of the towpath diversion sign that I can recall from when I was there in 2016. It also says that the bridge has been removed.
https://www.britishwalks.org/walks/2005/653.php from 2005 mentions that the bridge was There but closed.
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Update 23/12/20
We are aware that where the water levels in the navigation have dropped, isolated sections along the bank have moved inwards as a result of the loss of pressure from the water.
Whilst this looks unsightly, it does happen from time to time with canals where we take the water out for maintenance. It is not a cause for concern. Our engineers have checked the waterway this morning and will continue to do so.
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Or you could read the original CRT news item at https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/news-and-views/news/gbp1-million-improvement-of-leicesters-waterways-gets-under-way which doesn't conveniently omit the locations of the new moorings that are part of th eproject
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On 30/11/2020 at 13:06, Mike Todd said:
I thought it was the other side of the winding hole from Bridge 61, ie above 61A, the swing footbridge, towards Bridge 62. Also must be beyond the stop planks which I think are alongside the visitor centre/trust shed.
At that point, having check various maps I can still not see any watercourse, and the canal seems to be level with the adjacent field at that point, but I am happy for someone to tell me that it is elsewhere.
One of the photos at http://www.ashbycanal.org.uk/breach-of-the-ashby-canal-north-of-snarestone-wharf-on-sunday-29th-november-2020/ shows the ditch and the culvert
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50 minutes ago, Narrowboatpootle said:
wonderful world of Google but cant find anything on this boatbuilder.
Or the weird world of Google.
I just tried "David Jones boat builder Chester" and whilst there's not a lot of info, this news report from 2009 https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/tenant-sought-historic-chester-boatyard-5218271 does mention a David Jones
"David Jones, 67, who repaired craft there for 35 years, is now semi-retired."
As he was a tenant rather than the owner of the boatyard, I would imagine that it's unlikely that the current owners have any old records from his time there, but might be worth asking http://www.taylorsboatyard.co.uk/
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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:
There is no mechanism for the grant to be extended.
What about:
9.3 Notwithstanding the regular content and cycle of Review Meetings, in the financial year 2021/22 a review will take place to consider whether, and if so, the extent to which there is a case to continue to support by Grant the public benefits (including, but not by way of limitation, provision of land drainage, flood mitigation and other public safety benefits) provided by the waterways under CRT’s stewardship beyond the end of the Grant Period. The 2021/22 Review shall take into account, among other matters, CRT’s performance of its obligations arising under the Grant Agreement. Defra shall issue a report setting out the conclusions of this review with regard to continued support of CRT by Grant beyond the term of this Grant Agreement on or before 1 July 2022
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1 hour ago, Tracy D'arth said:
If the lock is losing water too quickly (?) why will it be OK when the ground paddle is fixed?
The Curdworth flight has ground paddles at both ends of the locks, e.g. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3672660 . A fault with one of the paddles at the bottom gate end would allow the lock to drain, possibly causing a problem with completely filling the lock.
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47 minutes ago, WotEver said:
Anyone recognise them?
The top part looks similar to https://www.oldindustriallamps.com/a-55719506/factory-lights-old-industrial-lighting/industrial-lamp-holophane/#description
Railway signs.
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