Preparing for freight on the Aire & Calder
WITH discussions on Port Leeds comes the possibility of freight once again on the Aire & Calder Navigation.
Licence fees squandered
AS AN avid reader of your site and so conversant with your policy, I am surprised that nothing has been stated concerning the boat licence increases, writes Duncan Peters.
Really?
THE Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal is closed at Pillings above Loughborough.
The 'winter works' fiasco
I READ with interest your article 'Fiasco of the winter stoppage programme' and would agree with NABO's Anne Husar that it is, indeed, a fiasco, writes Allan Richards.
What's stopping the lock gate closing?
IT WAS early on Monday that it was discovered the down-stream gate of Sawley Flood Lock on the Trent would not close.
Peak Forest Canal reopens at last
IT TOOK just over two weeks, but at last the Peak Forest Canal has reopened.
Lock keepers cottage to be retained
A MASSIVE proposed development in the Digbeth area of Birmingham will see a Grand Union Canal lock keepers' cottage retained.
Lock repaired—then failed again the following day!
IT WAS on Sunday that Lemonroyd Lock (7) was closed with a failure.
What to make of it?
AS WE usually have a couple of cruises late in the year I have been perusing the list of winter stoppages, writes T. Lang.
Victor: Get back to your moorings whilst you can
WHILST Canal & River Trust(?) is proclaiming its marvellous waterways at the Houses of Parliament the opposite is very much the reality.