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Towpath closed until next year

I READ with trepidation that the towpath at Nettle Bridge on the Oxford Canal is closed until next year, writes Julian Warne.

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Published: 29 September 2023

Artificial Intelligence and the waterways

IN MY OPINION Artificial Intelligence instructions are total rubbish, writes Keith Gudgin.

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Published: 29 September 2023

Electric on the Avon

I AM NOT sure that electric narrowboats are news, writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 29 September 2023

IWA on going electric

AN INCREASING trend these days is for local waterway societies to have their trip boats electric propelled.

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Published: 28 September 2023

The state of the towpaths

I AM ONE of the few, like obviously your goodselves, who walk my dog along the towpath whilst the boat is moving along the canal, writes John Belfry,

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Published: 28 September 2023

No motor vehicles allowed on towpaths

I WAS intrigued to read your recent article regarding motorcycles being ridden on the towpaths, writes John Howard.

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Published: 28 September 2023

Three more Leeds & Liverpool swing bridges fail

Three more swing bridges have failed over the past week on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

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Published: 27 September 2023

What is an emergency?

A RECENT CaRT notice about Lock 20, Woodend Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal caused me to consider what requires emergency work rather than urgent work, writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 27 September 2023

AI in Customer Services

LIKE any new product from 'Silicon Valley' AI, (Artificial Intelligence) in the form of ChatGPT, has been announced in a blaze of publicity (hype?) that would do CaRT proud.

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Published: 27 September 2023

Canal & River Trust 2022/23 Annual Report & Accounts

THEe Canal & River Trust has published its Annual Report & Accounts for 2022/23 with the trust reporting:

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Published: 27 September 2023

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Latest

  • Canal to be closed for a month
  • A new event at Banbury
  • Works not finished in time for Easter
  • Restrictions on the Rochdale Canal to save water
  • Possible boatyard for Oxford after 20 years
  • Four paddle failures already this month
  • De-wintering tips from River Canal Rescue
  • Smoke control comes into force for narrowboats in Bimingham
  • Three stoppages still ongoing
  • EA stops Bristol Floating Harbour funding
  • Braunston Customer Service Facility now closed
  • Marsworth Flight reopened
  • Stoppages on Rochdale and Tame Valley canals
  • Another paddle failure
  • Another broken paddle on the Rochdale Canal
  • Environment Agency clearing more abandoned boats off the Thames
  • Attack just off the Coventry Canal towpath
  • Another mile of the Stroudwater Canal in water
  • Ripon takes the record
  • Canal town best place to live in the North

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