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On this day in 1993

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IWA National Festival Peterborough River Nene. A popular WaterTaxi is at bottom right of the image: the moorings were on one bank only downriver of the festival site, so those who booked-in last had a longish walk

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On this day 2014 at Maxilly-sur-Saône on what was the Marne-Saône Canal, now renamed the Canal from Champagne to Burgundy but always known by boatmen as the Heuilley canal, passing through two towns of that name. A distinctly autumnal feel to the weather as I recall, unlike the 36* recorded nearby by Dav & Pen (above) one year later..

 

Tam

 

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When Michael Streat was establishing the first-ever hire boat base on the Canal du Midi, he sent out 4 Dolphin cruisers and two Carribean class boats to Bordeaix by ship> A group of his financial backers and friends, of whom I was one (friend not a backer( then took them to his original base at Toulouse. There was then freight aplenty, including some very old craft, as in picture one. 

 

On a later trip there were still many craft plying, hauling grain in one direction and wine in the other, for all of whome the graet wheeze was to get into the 57 kilometre long pound before the locks closed for the hight, and then continue. Picture four showsone such going past our mooring at Capestang somewhere around bedtime.

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11 hours ago, PeterScott said:

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Penkridge  S+W

 

26 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:

Wheres that? Is it near the round tower? JD boatyard?

 

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Penkridge Lock No 38

 

Main Line: Autherley to Great Haywood

 

Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal

 

and the round tower is at Gailey a couple of miles and half a dozen locks away

 

 

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11 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

 

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Penkridge Lock No 38

 

Main Line: Autherley to Great Haywood

 

Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal

 

and the round tower is at Gailey a couple of miles and half a dozen locks away

 

 

Oh! Yes, i know now. Thank you. About four years since passing that way.

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1 hour ago, Tam & Di said:

This day 2015 en route to the shipyard at Pont de Vaux, Belgium, for maintenance. Top one is 0645hrs in the ascenseur at Strépy-Thieu which lifts boats of 112m x 12m up 73m in 7 minutes, by-passing the old canal with 2 locks and 2 small Anderton-style lifts taking ships 40m x 5.05m.

 

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At the top of the ascenseur, 0720hrs

 

Tam

 

Surely four small boatlifts, with operating machinery by William Cockerill's company. He was a textile machine maker from Haslingden who went to St Petersburg in 1794, having been recommended to the Empress Catherine II, and fortunately escaping after falling foul to her successor, Paul. He subsequently settled in Verviers to make textile machinery, being joined by his son, John, in 1802. After moving to Seraing in 1817, the factory was to form the basis of the Belgian engineering industry when that country was formed, and was for many years the most important such factory in Belgium. The photo from 1999 shows one of the hydraulic pumping engines used for powering the old lifts.

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We were also going to the yard at Pont vaux in 2011 and shared the Strepy lift with an 80m barge. There are 4 old lifts on the old canal du Centre which took 38m barges and has been bypassed by the new canal and lift. In 2002 the was a bad accident at lift no 1 which started to rise whilst a loaded peniche was half way out. The peniche was wrecked and subsequently the lift was dismantled and repaired the old lifts are now a tourist attraction.

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1 hour ago, Pluto said:

Surely four small boatlifts, with operating machinery by William Cockerill's company.

 

Sorry, yes, a bit of brain lapse - 1 fairly deep lock and 4 lifts. The lock leaves the widened Canal du Centre 1km or so before the ascenseur, replacing I think 3 locks which used to exist on a now abandonned section.

 

We generally docked at Pont de Vaux and did have the pleasure of using the old lifts 3 or 4 times. They are in a way much more impressive than the new ascenseur, but it was always a bit worrying to enter a caisson knowing that you were going to be raised or lowered nigh on 17m and watching the lift keeper tipping ashes in to seal the 'gate' that was supposed to hold the water so you remained afloat and the two caissons didn't get out of balance.

 

Tam

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