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Research trip to Scotland.jpg) I’m in Scotland today. No I didn’t get on the wrong train but I’m here researching and undertaking advance background filming for the Forth and Clyde & Union Canals DVD planned for production this summer. During the day I caught the train to Falkirk High Station then walked along the Union Canal to the Falkirk Wheel. While I had seen pictures before this was the first time I had seen the wheel in real life. Lots of film captured as the wheel rotated and the best spots identified for more filming later in the summer. Then I walked along the Forth and Clyde Canal to the lock at the end of the canal where it joins the River Carron which then flows into the River Forth. Finally I walked back to Falkirk Grahamston for a train back to Glasgow. .jpg) The biggest surprise of the day happened in the evening. I walked from the hotel to view the end of the Glasgow Branch at Spiers wharf – but the end of the canal was missing. I could see the branch coming into Glasgow and where the end of the canal should be but British Waterways have built an extension. Not content with a drop-lock at Dalmuir when boats are lowered under a bridge and raised at the far side in a single lock, this new extension has a pair of conventional locks to allow boats to pass under two road bridges around 100 metres apart. .jpg) Boats will be lowered in the first lock, then pass along a new channel before being raised in the second lock to the same level – or at least a similar level since they are too far apart to be sure if the levels are exactly the same. I assume the water will require pumping out of the locks rather than opening paddles or the short new channel will soon become flooded and the basin at the end would soon become dry. This will provide a navigable link to join the branch to the Port Dundas Basin which was disconnected from the canal system many years ago and provide additional mooring opportunities in Port Dundas Basin. .jpg) The link is not open yet but it looks like it will be very soon. I telephoned British Waterways to ask about the opening date but the lady I spoke to would only say that no date was decided yet. She wouldn’t even say if it would be in weeks or months time, although it looks more like weeks to me. There is still a narrow spit of land between the entrance to the basin and the second lock but a few scoops with a digger should sort that out. I do hope it’s open by the time we are filming with the boat there in a months time. Posted on Thursday, 6 July 2006 at 14:33 Comments (0) |
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