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  3. 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 The 1896 & 1903 acts don't seem to be online, but there is a PDF of the 1930 act which repealed them at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1930/43/pdfs/ukpga_19300043_en.pdf Which has a similar definition but in imperial units.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.
  4. 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
  5. 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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  9. See https://what3words.medium.com/how-does-what3words-make-money-f7ddfa791ab4 for how they make their money.
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  12. 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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    Vandalism

    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
  14. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/how-we-are-run/national-advisory-groups/cultural-heritage-advisory-group
  15. 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.
  16. Numbers visible on this photo https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4952820
  17. That should have been "Looks like Network Rail can't lay brick paving very well"
  18. 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
  19. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/17647-lock-32-ivinghoe-lock-grand-union-canal
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. April 2020 http://web.archive.org/web/20200408102046/https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/safety-on-our-waterways/coronavirus/coronavirus-and-boating-faqs
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