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[TheBiscuits]

 

Ribble Link looking lively ...

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008 (#4952)

 

 

Bow Creek and junction with River Thames

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009 (#4953)

 

upriver towards the Dome River Thames

 

Lightship

 

at Bow Creek junction with River Thames

[John Liley]

A friend, working for the German-based Raab Karcher company, passed on these photos from earlier days on the Rhine.  Raab Karcher, following the use of paddle tugs, are said to have been the first to introduce push-tows on the river. Ironically, they are now no longer in water-haulage at all. Even with 1,350 tonners, I was told, it was scarcely profitable, though the financial overheads of a large group (subsequently taken over by an even larger one) may have been part of the calculations.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015 (#4955)

 

Granary Wharf Leeds L+L

 

Compare

#4743 (1979)

#770 (2004)

#4146 (2005)

#4886 (2006)

#2156 (2007)

#2113 (2015)

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016 (#4956)

 

Flood Damage Elland Bridge C+H Compare #3684 #3709 (2016)

 

 

After the Boxing Day floods 2015, the failure of Elland Bridge caused significant local disruption. There was a temporary footbridge over the canal downstream at the next lock and by this day 2006, a new temporary footbridge was being installed alongside the failed bridge.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 20, 2021 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009 (#4957)

 

 

Bow Creek on a falling tide

[PeterScott]

(#4957) On this day in 2009

 

Brownings Pool (Little Venice) Grand Union Canal  Paddington Branch GU

Compare 3May2008  6May2008 3May2009  30Apr2011  20May2012

More twentieths of January

[John Liley]

The Rhine again. How this can be referred to as "a natural highway" as a British Waterways Chairman did once in a letter, is beyond me. With a roaring current and rocky shallows it is anything but. Between World Wars, then up to 1970, ten pairs of locks were introduced in the upper reaches. The first photo is of my own boat Arthur in the one at Ottmarsheim, the second I filched from the Internet. The third was taken when three vessels, more or less together were overtaking while coming upstream towards us I counted a further 16.

 

30,000 craft a year travel this way, to keep Switzerland supplied.

[David Mack]

On this day in 2008.

Sharing the King George V Entrance Lock with HMS Exeter:

 

And later the same day, Bow Locks. Locking down from the tidal Bow Creek to the River Lee Navigation on a high tide. Earlier in the trip we had locked down from the Lee to Bow Creek!

 

Edited January 21, 2021 by David Mack

[PeterScott]

(#4961) On this day in 2008

 

Untying - Royal Docks London - for the tidal passage to Bow. And a little earlier

 

 

Edited January 21, 2021 by PeterScott
miscounted #

[PeterScott]

(#4962) Today 2021

 

"It's not usually that wide" (Iain Scott)

 

[PeterScott]

(#4963) On this day in 2012

 

Ripon Basin 

 

Compare

#3845 (2003)

#2496 (2009)

 

Edited January 21, 2021 by PeterScott
extra pic

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008

 

Thames Barrier Compare #4953 (2009)

 

 

Lightship Entrance to Bow Creek

 

 

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

(#4965)  On this day in 2005

 

Ashton Canal  Islington Branch Manchester and building the New Islington Branch

 

 

and the developer Urban Splash expected it all to look like this

 

 

Edited January 21, 2021 by PeterScott
link

[PeterScott]

(#4966)   On this day in 2008

 

Royal Docks London. London Boat Show at Excel. Towards London City Airport

 

[PeterScott]

(#4967)    On this day in 2008

 

Bow Locks Lee and Stort Navigation Compare #4960 (2008) #1506 (2012)

 

 

Edited January 21, 2021 by PeterScott
extra pic

[PeterScott]

(#4968)   On this day in 2008

 

 

 

Junction of Regent's and Hertford Union Canals Compare 21Oct2019  More twentyfirsts of January and labove the top lock on Hertford Union

 

 

[PeterScott]

(#4969)    On this day in 2008

 

GU Paddington Branch

 

Paddington Visitor Moorings

 

[Dav and Pen]

On this day 2010 we were in Limerick to watch Northampton Saints play Munster. The Shannon here is tidal and the lock is into the abbey river which bypasses shoals. The moored boats are at Killaloe in a backwater originally part of a canal to Limerick before the big hydro plant was built.

We lost by the last kick of the match our fly half missing a penalty, but a great day anyway.

Edited January 22, 2021 by Dav and Pen
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[Pluto]

On 20/01/2021 at 17:47, John Liley said:

A friend, working for the German-based Raab Karcher company, passed on these photos from earlier days on the Rhine.  Raab Karcher, following the use of paddle tugs, are said to have been the first to introduce push-tows on the river. Ironically, they are now no longer in water-haulage at all. Even with 1,350 tonners, I was told, it was scarcely profitable, though the financial overheads of a large group (subsequently taken over by an even larger one) may have been part of the calculations.

 

 

 

The Oscar Huber is part of the German inland shipping museum in Duisburg, and is moored at the entrance to the Ruhrort dock complex. My photos are from 1992.

[Pluto]

On 20/01/2021 at 23:31, John Liley said:

The Rhine again. How this can be referred to as "a natural highway" as a British Waterways Chairman did once in a letter, is beyond me. With a roaring current and rocky shallows it is anything but. Between World Wars, then up to 1970, ten pairs of locks were introduced in the upper reaches. The first photo is of my own boat Arthur in the one at Ottmarsheim, the second I filched from the Internet. The third was taken when three vessels, more or less together were overtaking while coming upstream towards us I counted a further 16.

 

30,000 craft a year travel this way, to keep Switzerland supplied.

In 2012, we rented a holiday flat overlooking the Rhine at Kestert, in the Rhine Gorge. This was the view from the other side of the road outside the flat.

[John Liley]

This is how I remember the river lower down.(Quite way we bothered putting out a blue flag to acknowledge upcomers I cannot think. It blew horizontally anyway, which is why, nowadays, boards are used instead)

[Pluto]

The various more recent types of boat are shown here.

[PeterScott]

(#4975)  

 

On this day in 2011

 

Presentation about current challenges on the inland waterways