canal Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/canal/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:44:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 London Canal Museum https://mechtraveller.com/2025/05/london-canal-museum/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/05/london-canal-museum/#respond Wed, 28 May 2025 17:17:15 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11726 The London Canal Museum (LCM) is housed in an historic canal warehouse, just north of King’s Cross. It has displays and artefacts on two floors, telling the story of canals, and London’s canals in particular, from their construction, the goods and industries that relied on them for transport, the lock keepers, boatmen and their families […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/05/london-canal-museum/feed/ 0 Industrial Heritage on the Union Canal, and how to explore it https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/industrial-heritage-on-the-union-canal-and-how-to-explore-it/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/industrial-heritage-on-the-union-canal-and-how-to-explore-it/#respond Sat, 07 Dec 2024 14:24:31 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11120 The truth is, all of Britain’s canals are ‘industrial heritage’ in their own right, but they all have some unique pieces of engineering & architecture that stand out. The Union Canal, running between Falkirk and Edinburgh, is no exception. I took a narrowboat on a short trip along half of it to see its key […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/industrial-heritage-on-the-union-canal-and-how-to-explore-it/feed/ 0 The world’s largest sea lock at IJmuiden will enable the new generation of giant ships to reach Amsterdam https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/the-worlds-largest-sea-lock-at-ijmuiden-will-enable-the-new-generation-of-giant-ships-to-reach-amsterdam/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/the-worlds-largest-sea-lock-at-ijmuiden-will-enable-the-new-generation-of-giant-ships-to-reach-amsterdam/#respond Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:00:25 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7268 The long-awaited new sea lock at IJmuiden opens on Weds (26 Jan). This massive marine engineering project at the gateway to the North Sea Canal (Noordzeekanaal) which leads to Amsterdam, got underway back in 2016. Now, finally* the new lock, which replaces the old North Lock (Noordersluis)** that had been in operation for almost 100 […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/the-worlds-largest-sea-lock-at-ijmuiden-will-enable-the-new-generation-of-giant-ships-to-reach-amsterdam/feed/ 0 Paddle under the Pennines https://mechtraveller.com/2017/05/paddle-under-the-pennines/ https://mechtraveller.com/2017/05/paddle-under-the-pennines/#comments Sun, 28 May 2017 18:35:37 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=2385 Foulridge Tunnel, on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, is to become the longest canal tunnel in the UK to open to canoes. The mile-long, the 200 year old tunnel, looked after by the Canal & River Trust, is regularly used by canal boats, but from Saturday 03 June, canoeists will be able to paddle through […]

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