Marston Doles

[Tractor]

Log wait here, 12 in here waiting to go down

Edited August 27, 2020 by Tractor

[Athy]

A greeno for the brilliant thread title!

Fortunately, once you reach the main Napton flight, descent is usually pretty quick, with in-out up-down all the way if you're lucky.

[Tractor]

Time for hireboat companies to get up here to provide some practical lock handling

[TheBiscuits]

5 minutes ago, Tractor said:

Time for hireboat companies to get up here to provide some practical lock handling

 

You could always go and help/teach the ones who are struggling ...

[Athy]

What a pity that the topic title has been changed, as it was very appropriate in the circumstances.

[Keeping Up]

Sounds like a good idea for a blues song, "I woke up this morning, found 12 boats before me, Oh Yeah man I've got the Marston Doles"

 

Just to add to the OP's dolorous feeling, we got there at 3pm yesterday and there was just one boat ahead of us going into the lock and then we went straight down.

[ditchcrawler]

4 minutes ago, Keeping Up said:

Sounds like a good idea for a blues song, "I woke up this morning, found 12 boats before me, Oh Yeah man I've got the Marston Doles"

 

Just to add to the OP's dolorous feeling, we got there at 3pm yesterday and there was just one boat ahead of us going into the lock and then we went straight down.

Birmingham is virtually empty

[Athy]

23 minutes ago, Keeping Up said:

 

 

Just to add to the OP's dolorous feeling, 

Hoorah!