How to operate canal locks, with crew
By far the easiest and safest way to get through locks is with crew. Even one other person on the boat makes things quicker and simpler as they can go
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Vlog 131: Star gate
Every winter the Canal & River Trust shut parts of the network down for a time in order to do maintenance which often includes taking out broken or old lock gates and replacing them. New lock gates are not something you can just order in from Amazon however, so the CRT have to make their own and in this video I visited their Birmingham workshop to see how the process works.
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