Catastrophic Lock Failure

[fuzzyduck]

In this vid (Thanks to YBW) a passenger vessel is going up in a 100 x 1200 foot lock when one of the downstream gates falls off.

 

 

Hope it never happens on the Soar

Edited January 24, 2010 by fuzzyduck

[Timleech]

In this vid (Thanks to YBW) a passenger vessel is going up in a 100 x 1200 foot lock when one of the downstream gates falls off.

 

 

Hope it never happens on the Soar

 

There seems to have been an awful lot of water running through the lock before they shut the bottom gates, maybe they slammed shut a bit too hard!

 

Am I alone in finding this news clip comical:-

 

 

Worrying about a lock which is 'more than 40 years old'! and gates weighing as much as 'four Abrams tanks'

 

Tim

[MartinClark]

In this vid (Thanks to YBW) a passenger vessel is going up in a 100 x 1200 foot lock when one of the downstream gates falls off.

 

 

Hope it never happens on the Soar

It happened on the Rochdale, in 2003, with two boats in the lock at the time.

[Guest]

It happened on the Rochdale, in 2003, with two boats in the lock at the time.

 

Not out of morbid but rather genuine curiosity what was the outcome for the boats and crew?

[MartinClark]

Not out of morbid but rather genuine curiosity what was the outcome for the boats and crew?

The boats dropped very rapidly in the lock as the water rushed out. As far as I know there were no injuries to crew.

[magpie patrick]

It's happened at several locations, once, on the Leeds and Liverpool at Johnson's Hill, the boat came out undamaged and carried on, leaving the lock keeper to chase after them on his bike!

[steve hayes]

 

 

Managed to break Odd Lock on the South Strafford canal last year, the lady on the boat in fornt didn't know her own stength when she tried to open the gate.

 

It took BW a grand total of eight workmen to attend it, one to carry out the repair and seven to "assist" !!

 

All I can say I glad that I wasn't in the lock coming down, it would have been a gloomy night

[Amduck]

 

Managed to break Odd Lock on the South Strafford canal last year

 

Our greyhound has broken a couple of things, but that's ridiculous.....

[steve hayes]

Our greyhound has broken a couple of things, but that's ridiculous.....

 

Very Good

 

Sally's latest trick was to kick in the glass on our fire whilst exiting forward at great speed to chase, oh anything

[Guest]

This?

 

David

 

Don't think so - different canal/region and it looks like a breach not a broken lock gate.