Two Winter Works cancelled in two days

Published: Thursday, 16 January 2025

YET ANOTHER Winter Works has been cancelled, it has been told today, Thursday, following the one cancelled yesterday.

This time it is the work of preventing a leak from Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Keith Gudgin reports.

Huddersfiel5EWater from the Paddock Foot Lock 5E (picture by Pennine Waterways) is leaking into the Colne, and the work that was cancelled was to fill the voids from where the water is leaking to prevent further leakage.

Removed from the programme

Canal & River Trust state that the work has been removed from the programme due to 'reprioritisation' within its national grouting programme.

This work will not now be done, though it can be expected that the voids will most possibly enlarge and be harder to fill.

The Winter Works cancelled yesterday, Wednesday, was on the Kennet & Avon replacing the lock beams on Copse Lock 80 at Kintbury that it is told will be replaced later in the year, with the navigation then closed.