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  • Llangollen canal breach #5

    One thing that is currently being done is the installation of a additional cofferdam on the canal. I suggested this several days ago as the current one is too near the site of the breach for anyone’s liking. The reason that was positioned where it was is because there was one narrowboat that needed re-floating.…

  • Llangollen canal breach #4

    Things seem quiet at the moment. Apart from basic staff (who are on site to keep a constant watch on the pumping and also monitor the embankment’s stability) it seems things may not start moving once again until after the holiday period – probably next Monday 29th December onward. There’s not a lot to do…

  • Llangollen canal breach #3

    Xmas Day might be a day where most are usually at home celebrating the festivities. For the boaters its a time of getting reorganised, moving back onto their boats, moving away from the site and nearer to Grindley Brook locks where possible and the rest of it. Moving out of the area completely is dependent…

  • Llangollen canal breach #2

    At this time of writing the canal pumps are working and a number of pipes have been laid to convey drinking water (well filthy canal water rather – but it WILL be treated accordingly and purified in order to become drinking water) to Hurleston. No doubt it’ll be thirst quenching tap water for the numerous…

  • Llangollen canal breaches!

    The Llangollen canal had a massive breach at Whitchurch this morning. The incident site is just to the west of the town near its large Aldi store, and this is where the Sandstone Trail crosses the canal by way of a lift bridge. A huge sinkhole appeared and canal boats were seen sitting perhaps twenty…

  • The Bridgewater canal breach #6

    Is work finally commencing on the long task of repairing the Bridgewater canal breach that occurred nearly a year ago? Peel Holdings have turned up and it seems they are starting some work next week. Its basically to sort the temporary dams by putting in earth dams (bunding) instead. It doesn’t necessarily mean the main…

  • London’s Elizabeth line a world beater?

    The claim on social media that ‘The Elizabeth Line in London moves 800,000 people daily. No highway at its busiest point moves that many people daily in North America’ certainly carries a lot of interest. Evidently its meant to point out that car usage in the USA triumphs any sense of being effective. However as…

  • The Elizabetron line?

    With stations such as Paddingtron located in the core route through the centre of London, here are some pictures which shows the advertising that have, erm… changed the former Crossrail line for the better! Its quite a rarity for TfL (otherwise known as Tronsport for London) to have almost every single station on the core…

  • My, my, what a load of rubbish!

    When anyone reads London Rail every article is faithfully written and research is intense (and by the way not a single cent is earned). Not only that the output has detail and facts which others who are often paid and almost certainly abled (including speech) simply don’t bother with. The latest from a certain London…

  • Blatten and the Swiss railway

    The picturesque upper Lötschental is where the recent calamity involving the village of Blatten occurred. It is a disaster of gigantic proportions and the huge avalanche and mud slide from the Birch glacier has buried the village to a depths of between 50 and 200 metres. That’s pretty deep if one thinks about it. Fifty…

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