narrowboatworld
  • Home
  • Information
  • Contact Us
  • Hire Guide

Why was the breach left to the emergency services?

WHEN the culvert collapsed at Melling on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal it was the emergency services that attempted to stay the flow from the breach.

Details
Published: 21 June 2018

The 'all or nothing' approach

CLOSING a canal for only half a mile but effectively closing the whole of the canal is but an extension of the 'all or nothing' approach we have seen for many years. writes Bill Ridgeway.

Details
Published: 21 June 2018

Will they roll it on?

I WAS aghast to read that contractors had closed a mile of canal for the day to attend to trees, writes Helen Cripps.

Details
Published: 21 June 2018

H&S rules mis-interpreted

ACCORDING to the article 'Health & Safety gets worse', The health and safety regulations are getting even more of a hindrance to boating, writes Bill Ridgeway.

Details
Published: 21 June 2018

Take a break at Stenson Lock

SHOULD you have cruised up from some of the 'terrible six' as the broad locks at the eastern end of the Trent & Mersey Canal are well known, there's the chance of a long rest at Stenson Lock.

Details
Published: 20 June 2018

Health & Safety gets worse

 THE health and safety regulations are getting even more of a hindrance to boating.

Details
Published: 20 June 2018

David Suchet to attend historic rally

THE Poirot actor and waterways patron, David Suchet, will attend the Historic Narrowboat Rally at Braunston Marina.

Details
Published: 20 June 2018

L&L breach repair could take six weeks

THE Leeds & Liverpool is now closed at the Liverpool end due to a culvert collapse, writes Linda Andrews.

Details
Published: 20 June 2018

CaRT hiding its incompetence

So, now CaRT are blaming us boaters for the Middlewich breach by leaving lock paddles open are they? Asks John Coxon.

Details
Published: 20 June 2018

Boaters blamed for Middlewich breach!

THE Canal & River Trust has issued its most ludicrous statement yet—blaming boaters for the Middlewich breach!

Details
Published: 18 June 2018

Page 661 of 1418

  • 656
  • 657
  • 658
  • 659
  • 660
  • 661
  • 662
  • 663
  • 664
  • 665

Latest

  • Lichfield & Hatherton canal restoration problems
  • Our site was not compromised
  • A back-of-a-fag-packet calculation
  • And still they come
  • Christmas days out and events on the canals
  • Victor tells we now have a 'high level leak'
  • Problems repairing Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation lock
  • Ellesmere Canal Yard secures National Lottery funding
  • New tools for volunteers
  • WaterNav improves journey planning and weather data
  • At last—Atherstone Flight open
  • Whitchurch Breach progress report
  • Canal & River Trust help boatyard to survive
  • Grantham Canal Society to start on restoration of another lock
  • Workers break into roof of tunnel closing navigation
  • Chesterfield Canal Trust at Staveley:
  • Lock closures on the Thames
  • Two weeks of failures
  • Concrete barriers to protect Wrenbury Lift Bridge
  • Warnings to boat owners as 70mph winds set to hit Britain  

Search