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kris Super Member Posts: 22,559	More begging from crt Oct 28, 2023 9:05:13 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kris on Oct 28, 2023 9:05:13 GMT Got a link.

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kris Super Member Posts: 22,559	More begging from crt Oct 28, 2023 9:41:59 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kris on Oct 28, 2023 9:41:59 GMT Thanks, it does seem like a waste of money. Especially if they turn out like the one at Rodley on the L&L, as I understand it some one has had to be employed to help people through that one.

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More begging from crt Oct 28, 2023 9:53:22 GMT via mobile metanoia likes this

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Post by ‎ on Oct 28, 2023 9:53:22 GMT

I haven"t been that way for ages (2008) but do wonder what the situation is with regards to how one leaves the bridge.

I seem to recall some of these were routinely left open. It seems this would be rather dangerous with hydraulics so the protocol may be to leave closed.

Not sure about this. Perhaps the bridges being converted have high traffic across them.

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More begging from crt Oct 28, 2023 12:35:50 GMT metanoia likes this

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Oct 28, 2023 8:26:08 GMT dogless said:

The Anderton lift is an interesting issue.

Pity the National Trust wouldn't accept it as a donation ... there's a successful organisation that would be capable of preserving it for future generations.

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Like they did with the Southern Stratford when B.W had to take it back to keep it open. Their experience of looking after canals was left short when they allowed their lockeeper to shorten the balance beams so he could drive his Land Rover down the towpath.

dogless Long Standing Member Posts: 2,851	More begging from crt Oct 28, 2023 16:42:43 GMT metanoia and brummieboy like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dogless on Oct 28, 2023 16:42:43 GMT I'm certain N.T. wouldn't consider it, it wasn't a serious proposal. More promoting the idea that it would be best financed as a 'stand alone' historical attraction rather than as part of the system. Rog
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‎ Super Member Posts: 8,796 Member is Online	More begging from crt Oct 28, 2023 17:30:24 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by ‎ on Oct 28, 2023 17:30:24 GMT Or just scrap it. No way should licence payers who never go there pay for it. It might be very beautiful and really clever but at the end of the day its obsolete.
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kris Super Member Posts: 22,559	More begging from crt Oct 28, 2023 18:20:53 GMT via mobile metanoia likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kris on Oct 28, 2023 18:20:53 GMT It would be a bizarre situation if they end up with a useable boat lift, but no boats can navigate to it to use it.

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Oct 28, 2023 18:20:53 GMT kris said:

It would be a bizarre situation if they end up with a useable boat lift, but no boats can navigate to it to use it.

Not forgetting the ongoing and seemingly never ending issues with a couple of the locks and bridges once you reach the Weaver.

A lovely river, well worth the effort and thanks due to BW and CrT - but at what at cost in the grand scheme of things?

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Aloysius Long Standing Member Al-oh-wish-us Posts: 4,669	More begging from crt Oct 29, 2023 6:37:27 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Aloysius on Oct 29, 2023 6:37:27 GMT Oct 28, 2023 17:30:24 GMT ‎ said: Or just scrap it. No way should licence payers who never go there pay for it. It might be very beautiful and really clever but at the end of the day its obsolete.