It is currently 29 Mar 2024, 16:52
Mike G wrote:Hmmm......I think this was an inclined plane, wasn't it? A mechanical alternative to locks. I had a British Inland Waterways poster on my bedroom wall as a kid, and I'm fuzzily remembering it from there.
novocaine wrote:Par, all we got was a lousy boat lift.
No not that rather sexy modern version by the big horses heads, we have the anderton boat lift.
Andyp wrote:Words.
I am tickled a word so simple and descriptive as ramp can be given a scientifically and technically superior term designed to make some us think twice about it. Why use two words when one would do? I cannot help thinking this is why so many are frightened of science.
I seem to recall an inclined plane being used without caissons somewhere. A bogey was slipped under the boat and hauled up the ramp on rails. Might not have been in the UK though*
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*I see malc’s wiki link has examples.
TrimTheKing wrote:novocaine wrote:Par, all we got was a lousy boat lift.
No not that rather sexy modern version by the big horses heads, we have the anderton boat lift.
That’s brilliant though! Took my kids there about 4-5 years ago and they were filming a documentary about it with cameras onboard as we were taking a trip on it. I need to dig it out and see if we’re in it!
One thing I remember the most is that the gearing was made by Mr Citroen and the cogs on the gears are v shaped the same as the Citroen logo, which they told us came from the cog teeth. Someone’s going to pop up now and tell me that the guide was having one over on us...
Lunch in the pub next door wasn’t half bad either.
Malc2098 wrote:Down here in the SW, apart from the K&A, very little is often thought of its other canals......
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