New Locks on the canal system (mostly)

[magpie patrick]

Further meandering thoughts occasioned by projects I'm working on! There are a number of new locks on the canal system - by new I mean since since 1945 - that date is fairly arbitrary, I could have picked 1960, 1975, but late enough for these locks to belong to a different era to the canal opening. I don't necessarily mean "modern", these locks are mostly use the same technology in operation (if not in construction) that the originals do, nor do I mean "rebuilt", rather moved, either horizontally or vertically or both... 

I've been involved in some of the most recent - the four new ones on the Droitwich for example. A top of my head list is

 

Droitwich Juntion  - 4 new locks as part of realignment for restoration (2011)

 

Ribble Link - 8 new locks on an entirely new navigation (2001)

 

T&M - Etruria bottom lock, moved for a road scheme (1975?)

 

K&A - Bath Deep, two locks merged into one new one (1974 but unused until the 1980s)

 

Rochdale - Tuel Lane, one lock replacing two (2001?)

 

B&F - Curdworth Top, moved for the M6 Toll (1990s?)

 

I'm sure there are a lot more - please add to the list! 

 

 

Edited May 9, 2022 by magpie patrick

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:

Further meandering thoughts occasioned by projects I'm working on! There are a number of new locks on the canal system - by new I mean since since 1945 - that date is fairly arbitrary, I could have picked 1960, 1975, but late enough for these locks to belong to a different era to the canal opening. I don't necessarily mean "modern", these locks are mostly use the same technology in operation (if not in construction) that the originals do, nor do I mean "rebuilt", rather moved, either horizontally or vertically or both... 

I've been involved in some of the most recent - the four new ones on the Droitwich for example. A top of my head list is

 

Droitwich Juntion  - 8 new locks as part of realignment for restoration (2011)

Ribble Link - 8 new locks on an entirely new navigation (2001)

T&M - Etruria bottom lock, moved for a road scheme (1975?)

K&A - Bath Deep, two locks merged into one new one (1974 but unused until the 1980s)

Rochdale - Tuel Lane, one lock replacing two (2001?)

B&F - Curdworth Top, moved for the M6 Toll (1990s?)

 

I'm sure there are a lot more - please add to the list! 

 

 

 

Lemonroyd lock (A&CN to replace the old one and Kippax after the St. Aidans breach.)

 

Edit - forgot Kippax.

Edited May 9, 2022 by The Happy Nomad

[Tim Lewis]

35 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:

Further meandering thoughts occasioned by projects I'm working on! There are a number of new locks on the canal system - by new I mean since since 1945 - that date is fairly arbitrary, I could have picked 1960, 1975, but late enough for these locks to belong to a different era to the canal opening. I don't necessarily mean "modern", these locks are mostly use the same technology in operation (if not in construction) that the originals do, nor do I mean "rebuilt", rather moved, either horizontally or vertically or both... 

I've been involved in some of the most recent - the four new ones on the Droitwich for example. A top of my head list is

 

Droitwich Juntion  - 4 new locks as part of realignment for restoration (2011)

 

Ribble Link - 8 new locks on an entirely new navigation (2001)

 

T&M - Etruria bottom lock, moved for a road scheme (1975?)

 

K&A - Bath Deep, two locks merged into one new one (1974 but unused until the 1980s)

 

Rochdale - Tuel Lane, one lock replacing two (2001?)

 

B&F - Curdworth Top, moved for the M6 Toll (1990s?)

 

I'm sure there are a lot more - please add to the list! 

 

 

 

Graham Palmer lock on the mont

 

Three Mills lock on the Lea

 

Edited May 9, 2022 by Tim Lewis

[David Mack]

Loxwood Lock on the Wey and Arun, which replaced most of the fall at Brewhurst Lock.

[Hudds Lad]

Locks 2E, 3E & 21E on the Huddersfield Narrow, all relocated in the restoration.

[David Mack]

Don't know if this counts, but Anthony Lock no. 77 on the Rochdale Canal was significantly raised when the canal was restored due to substantial settlement of the original structure during the period the canal was closed.

 

Several of the locks on the Upper Avon, the most recent being Harvington, which was relocated some years after the river reopened to navigation.

 

And in East Anglia:

 

Lode End Lock on the Middle Level.

 

New Lock to the Relief Channel at Denver Sluice.

 

Some of the locks on the Great Ouse up to Bedford.

Edited May 9, 2022 by David Mack

[StephenA]

Prince's Dock Lock and Mann Island Lock No 6 on the Liverpool Link

[Tim Lewis]

The one on the Camp Hill flight (Lock 54) that was moved due to a road scheme

 

The new lock in the entrance to Roydon Marina on the River Stort

 

Edited May 9, 2022 by Tim Lewis

[Tim Lewis]

Limehouse lock if you count ones built inside the old ones!

 

[Chris Lowe]

Loxwood - Wey & Arun

[StephenA]

Several of the locks on the River Avon (Warwickshire), but not all of them.

[pearley]

1 hour ago, Tim Lewis said:

The one on the Camp Hill flight (Lock 54) that was moved due to a road scheme

 

The new lock in the entrance to Roydon Marina on the River Stort

 

Sandy Lane.

 

And, did not Poolstock Locks replace Dover Locks?

 

Edited May 9, 2022 by pearley

[StephenA]

12 minutes ago, pearley said:

Sandy Lane.

 

And, did not Poolstock Locks replace Dover Locks?

 

 

Poolstock locks replaced the two at Dover and the one at Plank Lane. But they were added in the early 20th C

[Iain_S]

Locks 1, 2, 2a, 3, 5 and 11 on the Forth and Clyde. Dalmuir Drop lock, also Forth and Clyde.

 

The single lock and staircase on the Edinburgh &  Glasgow Union.

[Jen-in-Wellies]

Some of the locks on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire when they were upgraded for 198' x 20' boats in the late '70's, early 80's. Sometimes alongside the original, like at Kilnhurst, Sprotbrough, Long Sandall, rather than extended and widened in the original position. The remains of the old 60' locks can still be seen at the above.

Also, Sheffield and Tinsley Canal Tinsley flight locks 6/7. Two locks combined in to one, to allow enough height for a new railway line to cross over the canal in around 1960, or 61.

[PeterF]

Kegworth deep lock was moved but not far when works were done on the River Soar, I am not sure if any others were moved or just rebuilt.

Edited May 9, 2022 by PeterF
Remove reference to Woodnook lock, wrong date.

[PeterF]

4 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:

Locks 2E, 3E & 21E on the Huddersfield Narrow, all relocated in the restoration.

Wasn't lock 6W in Stalybridge also relocated.

[AndrewIC]

T&M, Thurlwood Steel Lock - been and gone of course

[PeterF]

Middlewood deep lock on the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal replaced the original 2 locks in the 2000s.

Edited May 9, 2022 by PeterF

[David Mack]

Shift your arbitrary date back to about 1930 and you could claim all the new GU locks from Calcutt to Knowle.

[cheshire~rose]

You missed Staveley Town Lock on The Chesterfield and I think Boundary Lock was a new one? when that section was restored but I might be wrong?

[magpie patrick]

2 hours ago, cheshire~rose said:

Boundary Lock

 

Yes it was,

 

Staveley lock is so obvious I'd missed it! I see it every month! I think one of the others on the Derbyshire length is "new" too - I'll ask George when I next see him

[Jen-in-Wellies]

Graham Palmer Lock on the Montgomery Canal. Built to cope with changes in ground level due to subsidence when the section of canal was restored. Named after the founder of the WRG. 

[Athy]

There's a new lock - the first ever unless you count the former stop lock at the canal entrance - on the Ashby, though it is on the Moira section which is not yet connected to the main canal.

[Jen-in-Wellies]

Oops, already mentioned!

One added during restoration in the 1990's because of mining subsidence. Chesterfield Canal, lock 41A, Boundary Lock, to the West of Shireoaks.

Edited May 10, 2022 by Jen-in-Wellies