AND it's another swing bridge on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
Brewery Swing Bridge (177) at Skipton gave up the ghost yesterday, Thursday, closed owing to 'mechanical failure' Keith Gudgin reports.
Then back on the 27th Woodside Swing Bridge on the waterway also failed.
Then on the 14th the 'Cox was on the Rocks' for the umpteenth time.
On the 7th of this month the Moss Swing Bridge on the waterway failed, we are informed with the 'gearbox vandalized' but not told how.
Then on the 1st Moss Swing Bridge that had previously failed only a week before.
So going back to May
So back to May on the17th Warehouse Swing Bridge failed, with a broken return spring.
Then on the 14th Idle Swing Bridge also on the Leeds & Liverpool failed. We are told with broken parts in the canal.
So seven swing bridge failures on one waterway in just over five weeks. How many boaters were trapped in these many stoppages we are never told...