HAVING spent the last couple of months cruising from Great Haywood via Middlewich, Wigan, Liverpool, Manchester, Standedge Tunnel, Wakefield, Keadby, Newark, Shardlow and Fradley to Poleseworth I think I am in a fairly good position to comment on the state of the system, at least its northern parts.
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The historic Tooley's Boatyard at Banbury on the Oxford Canal is hoping to create an apprenticeship scheme to train budding boat engineers.
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WOODNOOK Lock on the Wakefield Branch of the Aire & Calder Navigation is out of action again.
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THE 'all electric brigade' is now in full flow promising all electric vehicles and even one company working on electric lorries, so are we in their sights? I ask.
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WHAT seems like a senseless act of vandalism, the new lock balance beam replacing the one sawn off one on the Walsall Canal has also been sawn off and taken.
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IS THE tunnel clear [for canoeists]? That's an interesting conundrum, writes Bill Ridgeway.
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THERE is no doubt that David Mercer's article in narrowboatworld about it charging for overnight moorings on the Thames, when it should not, has had an effect.
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NOTWITHSTANDING all the rain, the summit of the Rochdale Canal is to have further restrictions.
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UNBEKNOWN to boaters, it has transpired that the Environment Agency are not allowed to charge for overnight moorings on the Thames, though of course it does!
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