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Your description of the lock reminds me of Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, in which falling into the lock is assumed to be inevitably fatal and associated primarily with suicide (or exceptionally, as in the book, murder).
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Ah, well, I have walked from Shireoaks to Worksop, and a good bit further, albeit acconpanied by a boat, when I insisted on working all 36 locks of the Chesterfield Canal on our descent from the head of navigation at Kiveton Park (with a boat that's an inch or two narrower than the one I've got now)
Stret Lock was in fact rebuilt too narrow when the canal was restored (I've written about it here: http://www.chertsey130.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/easing-squeeze.html) So I was right about you going to Worksop! |
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Worksop Town Lock is quite possibly the most unpleasant on the entire canal system. Very wise to avoid it.
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Good luck for his endeavour. Given the number of stations on Northern's network that have a "parliamentary" service, it's going to take him quite some time...
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....and time is something he has very little of because, as DG has already posted, the world is ending at 1811 sharp tomorrow.
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David - although several parliamantary services serve Northern's stations, many of them are also served by other services which makes hem easier to collect (e.g Runcorn). And he's already done the three in Lincolnshire. (The other's I can think of are Teesside Airport and the three on the Stockport - Stalybridge line.
The Esk Valley line may prove to be more difficult, despite having several trains a day....... |
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Did you get your passport stamped?
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That is a serious undertaking. Given that Merseyrail took him five years, and the way that some rail franchises keep getting butchered about, it'll be interesting to see whether the Northern network even exists in it's current form by the time he has completed it!
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In the early to mid 60s, my late father played a key role in saving the Chesterfield Canal, even lobbying government ministers in person. He also wrote a history of the canal; a self-published volume, typed and Gestetnered and sold to fellow canal buffs. And as a child, most of my weekends were spent ploughing the furrow between Worksop Morse Lock (the old head of navigation - we dreamed of Shireoaks!) and West Stockwith basin, where the canal joined the Trent. So, nice to see you treading a portion of my childhood pathway!
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"I think I can guarantee it's not a walk you'll ever do"
I take it back :) |
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British Steel Redcar railway station will be the worst one for him. Two trains a day and it's on private land so you can't get to/from except by train.
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