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Post by bargemast on Aug 6, 2017 19:19:01 GMT
Here is the link to a video of 1961 when they still thought that the transport by water would continue to progress. What a bloody shame that they didn't manage to get better organised, as there's no better way to transport heavy and bulky goods than transport by water. There are many links after this one to more interesting videos of the past to see, I watched a few, but they made me sad. Peter. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 6, 2017 19:35:29 GMT
What a bloody shame that they didn't manage to get better organised, as there's no better way to transport heavy and bulky goods than transport by water. From my mooring at Stretton-under-Fosse to Banbury by boat, 21 hours. By road, 48 minutes. From my mooring at Stretton-under-Fosse to Llangollen by boat, ten days. By road, 1 hour 56 minutes. Canals were outdated for carrying goods in 1850, they certainly wouldn't be competitive in 2017. Plus, would any of us really want thousands of floating articulated lorries queueing up at locks? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2017 19:48:11 GMT
What a bloody shame that they didn't manage to get better organised, as there's no better way to transport heavy and bulky goods than transport by water. From my mooring at Stretton-under-Fosse to Banbury by boat, 21 hours. By road, 48 minutes. From my mooring at Stretton-under-Fosse to Llangollen by boat, ten days. By road, 1 hour 56 minutes. Canals were outdated for carrying goods in 1850, they certainly wouldn't be competitive in 2017. Plus, would any of us really want thousands of floating articulated lorries queueing up at locks? Now let`s see Suez Canal Panama Canal Kiel Canal for a start. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2017 19:53:03 GMT
I'm extremely glad that there is no longer high volume commercial use of the smaller UK canals. If there was I'm sure it would be much less pleasant. Locks would be modernised, boats would not slow down, traffic would be 24/7.
I'd hate that.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 6, 2017 19:57:13 GMT
From my mooring at Stretton-under-Fosse to Banbury by boat, 21 hours. By road, 48 minutes. From my mooring at Stretton-under-Fosse to Llangollen by boat, ten days. By road, 1 hour 56 minutes. Canals were outdated for carrying goods in 1850, they certainly wouldn't be competitive in 2017. Plus, would any of us really want thousands of floating articulated lorries queueing up at locks? Now let`s see Suez Canal Panama Canal Kiel Canal for a start. Outdated in the UK then. Like railways, we invented them and everybody else improved on them. It is absolutely ludicrous to suggest that a waterways network which is restricted by locks of less than two standard pallet widths could be viable as a means of commercial transport. |
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Post by bargemast on Aug 6, 2017 20:49:56 GMT
What a bloody shame that they didn't manage to get better organised, as there's no better way to transport heavy and bulky goods than transport by water. From my mooring at Stretton-under-Fosse to Banbury by boat, 21 hours. By road, 48 minutes. From my mooring at Stretton-under-Fosse to Llangollen by boat, ten days. By road, 1 hour 56 minutes. Canals were outdated for carrying goods in 1850, they certainly wouldn't be competitive in 2017. Plus, would any of us really want thousands of floating articulated lorries queueing up at locks? Just in case you didn't notice right in the beginning they were talking about widening locks, doing some decent dregging and building much bigger boats. They weren't talking about moving hea vy and bulky goods on the narrow ditches, in the Netherlands you can often read on the sides of the bigger barges the equivelent of the number of big truck loads that they move in one go, and that without creating traffic jams, it's much more economical than road transport. Of course it's hard to compair the UK waterways with the Netherlands, Belgian and German wa terways, but in 1961 they still had dreams of doing something about the improvements on the bigger UK waterways. I don't blame you for not liking that as a trucky, as for you there's only road transport that's good, in our parts of the world, road transport is only used for the shortest distance from the harbours to the clients place, if that place isn't right next to the water already. Peter. |
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 6, 2017 21:18:49 GMT
There are many links after this one to more interesting videos of the past to see, I watched a few, but they made me sad. Peter. Would you like me to send you a packet of Moomin plasters to cheer you up? |
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Post by Jim on Aug 7, 2017 6:01:31 GMT
They should have built the 365ft? Contour canal. That would have come by us.
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Post by larkboy on Aug 7, 2017 7:38:24 GMT
Here is the link to a video of 1961 when they still thought that the transport by water would continue to progress. What a bloody shame that they didn't manage to get better organised, as there's no better way to transport heavy and bulky goods than transport by water. There are many links after this one to more interesting videos of the past to see, I watched a few, but they made me sad. Peter. What a top piece of historical film, I thoroughly enjoyed that. I've developed quite an interest over the last couple of years in our inland waterways history and love anything like this. Thanks for putting the link up, now off to find more...👍😀 |
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