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Cool feature DG.
Alfie | 02.02.19 - 2:18 a.m. | #
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I thought Bow Locks' tally seemed surprisingly low, given the number of boats on East London's waterways, but I guess the Limehouse Cut is still proving its worth as a more convenient way to get to the Thames.
martin | 02.02.19 - 6:33 a.m. | #
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@martin I'm choosing to believe it's because of a steady marketing campaign from the latter entitled "Never Mind The Bow Locks, Here's The Limehouse" and nothing anyone says will convince me otherwise.
Jamesthegill | 02.02.19 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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Boat Movements into/out of the Thames (2018)
Limehouse Basin (1295)
Thames Lock Brentford (1195)
West India Dock (371)
Bow Locks (41)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.02.19 - 8:07 a.m. | #
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Ooh, specially for me. I'll be back :-)
First response ... a lot of the boats on London's waterways never travel further than the nearest water point/pumpout...
Coventry and Ashby isn't a canal, but maybe CRT lump them together for these purposes because the Ashby Canal doesn't have any locks. Glascote is on the Coventry. The fact that they only measure particular ones is pretty misleading - I'd guess Glascote bottom has pretty much identical usage to Glascote top; likewise all the ones between the ones measured on the HNC. Plenty to tussle with here, thank you dg :-)
Sarah | Homepage | 02.02.19 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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I never thought I would see the day when DG mentions the town I grew up in.
But today is the day: Very surprised to see Bradford on Avon at number 5 there!
Jon Allen | 02.02.19 - 9:07 a.m. | #
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The Thames and its locks are administered by the Environment Agency, rather than the C&RT, so don't appear on these lists, but I wonder how they would compare? Does the EA publish any figures?
timbo | 02.02.19 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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My first foray onto the canals was at the end of the 1976 summer of extreme drought. There were severe restrictions on use of locks but somehow we managed a round trip from Worcester to Stourbridge, Netherton, Birmingham and back via Tardebigge, all during the first rain of the year which was torrential. It was excellent.
kev | 02.02.19 - 11:00 a.m. | #
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If this becomes a regular feature, can it be called "Canally Retentive"?
;-)
Frank | 02.02.19 - 11:49 a.m. | #
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These are misleading. As someone else has pointed out some of these are flights, so which is the more used? New Marton top or New Marton bottom? similarly for Calcutt, Glascote and Hillmorton! Especially as some flights have marinas or moorings in between so the actual traffic numbers are different for the tops and bottom locks in these flights. Also it doesnt tell us what the biggest amount of lockages used were, Tixall is a very shallow lock and Wheaton Aston is a classic Shroppie lock eg a fairly deep lock thus Wheaton Aston takes double the amount of water. Whilst the broad locks take even more water than the narrow ones. Stonebridge is busy only because its local traffic using the lock to gain the water point or sanitary station (and not going anywhere in fact) thus does not reflect the actual traffic on the Lee Navigation for which I think you'll find is heavy at Broxbourne.
Rog | Homepage | 02.02.19 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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Justice for the Bingley Five....
Paul | 02.02.19 - 1:04 p.m. | #
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There's a Stairway to Heaven at the end of it all! Just keep your Hat on lol!
Rog | Homepage | 02.02.19 - 4:13 p.m. | #
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Possibly shouldn't ignore the Ashby completely - it's very popular, especially with hirers - possibly because of its lack of locks.
It's the Sheffield and Tinsley's bicentenary later this month.
Sarah | Homepage | 02.02.19 - 9:14 p.m. | #
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Fascinating stuff! And if only because the lower useage figures strangely mirror the dire trans-Pennine rail services we in the north endure on the Calder Valley and Stalybridge lines! Does the curse of Failing Grayling include the canals now ..
Moquette | 02.02.19 - 9:31 p.m. | #
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What happened to my reference to Hatton locks - the famous Stairway to Heaven? Did you think it was some kind of joke?
Who says the Ashby doesn't have locks? It does :)
Rog | Homepage | 03.02.19 - 2:30 p.m. | #
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The main reason so many have come up a place or two is that last year's numbers 3 and 5 are on the Middlewich Branch which was closed for most of the year (and while one, Cholmondeston, has still been usable the other - Wardle - has been completely closed during the repairs).
Nick Atty | Homepage | 03.02.19 - 5:52 p.m. | #
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